Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
wont .
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Examples
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Zoals jij ben ik een wolf in schaapskleren, want ik ben echte een Engelsman die in Nederland al veel jaren woont.
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De helft van mijn familie woont in Parijs, ik heb er veel tijd doorgebracht in mijn jeugd, dus komt het mij allemaal ook heel herkenbaar over
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March 20, 2008 at 4:29 am chucklol- dey wented wif me thru teh blackholeventhorizon route. dey woont fit in teh time machine, sillee.
O, Dem? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Afterward, when she saw convenient time, she went to the chink in the Wall, and making such a signe as shee was woont to doe:
The Decameron 2004
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New yeres day, and from that day reckoned vpon: although wee heere in England, especially the temporall lawyers for certaine causes are not woont to alter the same vntill the Annunciation of our
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I departed out of London in the ship called the Tiger, in the company of M. Iohn Newbery, M. Ralph Fitch, and sixe or seuen other honest marchants vpon Shroue munday 1583, and arriued in Tripolis of Syria the first day of May next insuing: at our landing we went on Maying vpon S. Georges Iland, a place where Christians dying aboord the ships, are woont to be buried.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And many folkes deemed euil of his comming againe, as of a thing vnaccustomed, but none durst say any thing, seeing the sayd de Merall of so great authoritie and dignitie, and he cherished the sayd prisoner, more than he was woont to doe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For then wee began to suspect, because the place was more frequented with men than it was woont.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Turkes by this time had ended their mines, and set them on fire, the 29. of Iuly; in the which space our men, according as they were woont to doe, renued and made vp againe the vaimures ruined before by the Ordinance, and hauing no other stuffe left to aduance them with, made sackes of Kersie, vnto the which the noble
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nicosia, which was woont, by the traffike of marchants, to be very wealthy: besides the city of Baffo, Arnica, Saline, Limisso,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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