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wonted en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɔntɪd/ (General-American)
• /ˈwəʊntɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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• /ˈwɑntɪd/ (General-American)
• /ˈwoʊntɪd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English woonted (“usual, customary”), from wont (“custom, habit, practice”), alteration of wone (“custom, habit, practice”), from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice; usual, wonted”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wona, wuna (“custom”), Old High German giwona (“custom”). More at wont, wone.

Meanings

1. Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
   • Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...] 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
   • 2008 (tr.?), Lodovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved …
   • They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371:
   • But the oath is alterable; and in the wonted fluctuations of parties not improbably it will undergo alteration, assuming such a form, perhaps, as not to bar the admission into the National Legislature of men who represent the populations lately in revolt. 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement:
   • Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated. 1889, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
   • I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

wontedness · unwonted

Relateds

wontedly · wont · wone

Translations (9)

ru привы́чный (usual, customary) · hu szokott (usual, customary) · ro obișnuit (usual, customary) · io kustumala (usual, customary) · hu megszokott (usual, customary) · fr habitué (usual, customary) · bg привичен (usual, customary) · bg обичаен (usual, customary) · la suētus (usual, customary)