Wont vs Prone - What's the difference?
wont | prone |
One’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.
* Milton
* 2006 , Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red:
* 1920 , James Brown Scott, The United States of America: A Study in International Organization , page 142:
* 1914 , Items of interest - Page 83:
(archaic) Accustomed or used (to'' or ''with a thing).
* Shakespeare
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XI, ''The Abbot’s Ways
(designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt (to doing something).
(archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
(archaic) To be accustomed.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
Lying face downward; prostrate.(w)
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*:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
Having a downward inclination or slope.
Shooting from a lying down position.
Predisposed, liable, inclined.
As adjectives the difference between wont and prone
is that wont is accustomed or used (to or with a thing) while prone is lying face downward; prostrate.WpAs a noun wont
is one’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.As a verb wont
is to make (someone) used to; to accustom.wont
English
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain: apparently a conflation of (wone) and wont (participle adjective, below).Noun
(en-noun)- 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 [...]
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adjective
(-)- 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
See also
* * prone toVerb
(en verb)- But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most sway [...].
