WONT TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wont to mean? 

• WONT TO (adjective)
  The adjective WONT TO has 1 sense:

1. in the habit of doing something

  Familiarity information: WONT TO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WONT TO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the habit of doing something

Synonyms:

used to; wont to

Context example:

...was wont to complain that this is a cold world

Similar:

accustomed to; used to (in the habit of or adapted to)

Domain category:

literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)

poetry (literature in metrical form)

 Context examples 

For this purpose I would have you know that it is not my wont to let any occasion pass where it is in any way possible that honor may be gained.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As Peggotty was wont to tell me, long ago, the followers of my father to the same grave were made ready in the same room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I soothed and comforted her, till she pulled herself bravely together and recuperated mentally as quickly as she was wont to do physically.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which you were wont to share at Bath, the very idea of them without her is abhorrent.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was willing to allow he might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Baseek was old, and already he had come to know the increasing valour of the dogs it had been his wont to bully.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Unlike Skeet, who was wont to shove her nose under Thornton’s hand and nudge and nudge till petted, or Nig, who would stalk up and rest his great head on Thornton’s knee, Buck was content to adore at a distance.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

This hall, in which he was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend the doctor’s; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest room in London.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She found that she had been misled by the careful, the considerate attention of her daughter, to think the attachment, which once she had so well understood, much slighter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)