consuetude

NOUN
  1. a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law
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How To Use consuetude In A Sentence

  • Any consuetude of brown bag lunches was intended to be flushed.
  • Our Constitution, consecrated by the callous consuetude of sixty years, and grasped in triumphant argument by the left hand of him whose right hand clutches the clotted slave-whip. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
  • For the present he swept the skies leisurely, feasting on the infinite wonders which no consuetude could render commonplace. The Mayor of Warwick
  • I remember myself to have so done, and _that is my common consuetude when anything pierceth or toucheth my heart_. John Knox
  • The Moderns were frequently critical of Progress, not because they favoured old verities and consuetudes, but because Progress attempted to pass itself off as Nature, or as History itself.
  • Safeguard of legal, infiltration of religion, deposit of consuetude , edification of family, affect of peers and development of the mass media all have great influence on children's moral acquisition.
  • Judge's ethics is a gross concept of the stable moral, behavior norm and the consuetude, it primarily includes the judge's value and thought in judicial process.
  • In it the king sets forth that he has made a burgh (burgum fecisse) at his new castle upon Are, and has granted to the burgh and its burgesses all the liberties and free consuetudes which his other burghs and burgesses through his kingdom enjoy.
  • Most traditions and consuetudes, outliving centuries, and is with today care kept Ukrainians in the folk creation, folk-lore, wares of folk skilled craftsmen.
  • We conclude by discussing the implications of consuetude for political and social behavior.
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