Meaning of assuetude | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Accustomedness; habit.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. The condition of an organism that has acquired tolerance of a drug or poison.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.”

“The boy had been his companion for years: and from assuetude had become, as it were, a part of himself.”

“My flesh writhed like the glutinous flesh of a serpent. Slowly moved, and stopped: -- then was a sweep -- and a swirl -- and a pause! then a swirl -- and a sweep -- and a pause! -- then steady industry of labour on the monstrous brazen axis, as the husbandman plods by the plough; then increase of zest, assuetude of a fledgeling to the wing -- then intensity -- then the last light ecstasy of flight.”

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