Uttal
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| Översättning | Kontext | Uttal |
|---|
| Adjektiv |
| 1. | van | arkaistisk | |
| Substantiv |
| 2. | sed {en} | | |
| 3. | vana {en} | | |
| Verb |
| 4. | vänja | arkaistisk | |
Definitioner
Substantiv
- One’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.
Adjektiv
- (archaic) Accustomed or used (to or with a thing).
- (designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt (to doing something).
Verb
- (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
- (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed.
Exempel
- He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.
- They are [...] to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont.
- With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont [...]
- As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Pennsylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin
- Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit [...]
- I have not that alacrity of spirit, / Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
- He could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime: he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up [...]
- He is wont to complain loudly about his job.
- Like a 60-yard Percy Harvin touchdown run or a Joe Haden interception return, Urban Meyer’s jaw-dropping resignation Saturday was, as he’s wont to say, “a game-changer.” — Sunday December 27, 2009, Stewart Mandel, INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL, Meyer’s shocking resignation rocks college coaching landscape
- But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most sway [...].
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