I. noun
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Desmond Seymour-Strachey sat, accepting the bustle, as was his wont .
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His horrible wont was to envelop his victim with his wings and suffocate him to death.
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Organic causes were ruled out so, as is his wont , he sat down and talked to her.
II. adjective
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Be still, my beating heart, as T. Wogan was wont to say.
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Ickes is wont to yawn in mid-conversation.
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It could be catastrophic if he started giving himself airs, as tenors are wont to do.
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The theist thereby comes to justify as a paradox what the atheist is wont to dismiss as a confusion.