Definitions

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  • adjective Not habitual; uncustomary.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ habitual

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Examples

  • Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    04.04 M-mv 2004

  • Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    Archive 2004-04-01 M-mv 2004

  • Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    William James M-mv 2004

  • My gratitude sped to the Lord, whose sole guidance I perceived in my visit to Nantu and my walk by the unhabitual route of the debris-filled lot.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • I perceived in my visit to Nantu and my walk by the unhabitual route of the debris-filled lot.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • The author has no right to expect of us an act so unhabitual, we very poignantly feel.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • But even this device may fail, and when you finally do compel direct quotation, you can not be certain of its reliability, for it was too extraordinary for the witness to quote directly, and the extraordinary and unhabitual is always unsafe.

    Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

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