Customary vs Unwonted - What's the difference?
customary | unwonted |
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 2008 , Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong:
* 2008 , Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica :
* 2003 , Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything'', ''Black Swan , pg.23:
(archaic) Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.
* 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 5.
As adjectives the difference between customary and unwonted
is that customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual while unwonted is not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.As a noun customary
is a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.customary
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* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39 *: When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.Synonyms
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* customarilyunwonted
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(en adjective)- Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted , / Which now came from him.
- [...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.
- On the other hand, it was not so well known among them that Moses was always to be their ruler, and so it behooved those who rebelled against his authority to be punished in a miraculous and unwonted manner.
- ...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.
- we demand the language we are accustomed to, and that which is different from this seems not in keeping but somewhat unintelligible and foreign because of its unwontedness .