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wont [rhymes with [don't]] Old-fashioned Adjective accustomed: most murderers, his police friends were wont to say, were male Noun a usual practice: she waded straight in, as was her wont [Old English gewunod]
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It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.
A NIGHTINGALE, sitting aloft upon an oak and singing according to his wont, was seen by a Hawk who, being in need of food, swooped down and seized him. This habit of abstention from Feeling in the best society enables a Circle the more easily to sustain the veil of mystery in which, from his earliest years, he is wont to enwrap the exact nature of his Perimeter or Circumference. |
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