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Habitude vs Indigenous - What's the difference?

habitude | indigenous |

As a noun habitude

is the essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.

As an adjective indigenous is

born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.

habitude

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Noun

  • (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
  • * 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (114)
    • His real habitude gave life and grace To appertainings and to ornament.
  • (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
  • * 1683 , (John Dryden), Life of Plutarch (21)
    • An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.
  • * 1891 , Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
  • * 1732 , (George Berkeley), (Alciphron) (4.21)
    • Proportion ... signifies the habitude or relation of one quantity to another.
  • (obsolete) In full habitude : fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
  • * 1661 , (Thomas Fuller), The History of the Worthies of England (1.165)
    • Although I believe not the report in full habitude .
  • (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
  • * 1665 , (John Evelyn), Memoirs (3.65)
    • The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.
  • (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
  • * 1676 , (George Etherege), The Man of Mode (4.1)
    • La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.
  • Habit; custom; usage.
  • * 1599 , (James I of England), (Basilikon Doron) (28)
    • Which ... by long habitude , are thought rather vertue than vice among them.
  • (obsolete) A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
  • * 1818 , (Michael Faraday), Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (32)
    • Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.

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    indigenous

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chiefly, of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
  • * 1862 , , "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":
    • Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
  • Innate, inborn.
  • * 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:
    • She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
  • * 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :
    • He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.

    Synonyms

    * (born or engendered in) aboriginal, autochthonous, native

    Derived terms

    * indigenity * indigenously * indigenousness * nonindigenous