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Definition of Wont

Wont

Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.

Custom; habit; use; usage.

of Wont

To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.

To accustom; -- used reflexively.

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Wont Quotations

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling

Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.
Herodotus

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Isaac Barrow

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
Michael Hutchence

I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.
Michelle Branch

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
Jim Bolger

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
Ruth Ellis

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Wont Translations

wont in German is gewohnt
wont in Swedish is van

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