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- Martha gave her hand a clumsy little shake, as if she was not accustomed to this sort of thing either.†
p. 64.2accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- He did not know that when she first saw him she spoke to him as she would have spoken to a native, and had not known that a cross, sturdy old Yorkshire man was not accustomed to salaam to his masters, and be merely commanded by them to do things.†
p. 79.9
- He said it as if he was so accustomed to the idea that it had ceased to matter to him at all.†
p. 113.2
- Then when he began to stand up and move about he did it in a queer unaccustomed way and the others seemed to have to help him.†
p. 230.6unaccustomed = not used tostandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccustomed means not and reverses the meaning of accustomed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- He was an Italian servant and was accustomed, as all the servants of the villa were, to accepting without question any strange thing his foreign master might do.†
p. 252.9 *accustomed = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
Definitions:
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(1)
(accustom) to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)