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wont to

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Adj.1.wont towont to - in the habit; "I am used to hitchhiking"; "you'll get used to the idea"; "...was wont to complain that this is a cold world"- Henry David Thoreau
used to
accustomed - (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"


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It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
He sat down quietly to breakfast in his cabin, never once thinking of inspecting the town, being one of those Englishmen who are wont to see foreign countries through the eyes of their domestics.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
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