Habitude vs Insecure - What's the difference?
habitude | insecure |
(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)
(archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
* 1683 , (John Dryden), Life of Plutarch (21)
* 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)
(obsolete) In full habitude : fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
* 1661 , (Thomas Fuller), The History of the Worthies of England (1.165)
(obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
* 1665 , (John Evelyn), Memoirs (3.65)
(obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
* 1676 , (George Etherege), The Man of Mode (4.1)
Habit; custom; usage.
* 1599 , (James I of England), (Basilikon Doron) (28)
(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)
Not secure.
Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.
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As a noun habitude
is (archaic) the essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.As an adjective insecure is
not secure.habitude
English
Noun
- His real habitude gave life and grace To appertainings and to ornament.
- An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.
- Proportion ... signifies the habitude or relation of one quantity to another.
- Although I believe not the report in full habitude .
- The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.
- La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.
- Which ... by long habitude , are thought rather vertue than vice among them.
- Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.
References
* ----insecure
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Adjective
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- He's a nice guy and all, but seems to be rather insecure around other people.