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WONT

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Traducere în limba română

wont I. adjectiv pred.

deprins, obişnuit;

as he was wont to say după cum avea obiceiul să spună.

wont II. substantiv

obicei, obişnuinţă, deprindere;

use and wont uzaj.

wont III. verb A. tranzitiv

a avea obiceiul (să), a obişnui (să).

wont III. verb B. intranzitiv

(poetic) a fi obişnuit.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It is their wont when there is work to be done.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A tap at the door roused her in the midst of this attempt to find her way to her duty, and her gentle Come in was answered by the appearance of one, before whom all her doubts were wont to be laid.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Tell me Alleyne Edricson, he broke out, suddenly, as they clattered along the winding track which leads over the Bournemouth hills, has it not seemed to you that of late the Lady Maude is paler and more silent than is her wont?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maria was her first favourite, the dearest of all; the match had been her own contriving, as she had been wont with such pride of heart to feel and say, and this conclusion of it almost overpowered her.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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