All 3 Uses of
habitual
in
1984 by Orwell
- …of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed — and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in real life.†
p. 12..9
- It happened again just as they were passing one another: it was only a twitch, a quiver, rapid as the clicking of a camera shutter, but obviously habitual.†
p. 64..3 *
- Below that come the dumb masses whom we habitually refer to as 'the proles', numbering perhaps 85 per cent of the population.†
p. 208..7
Definition:
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(habitual) done regularly