HABITUALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does habitually mean? 

• HABITUALLY (adverb)
  The adverb HABITUALLY has 1 sense:

1. according to habit or custom

  Familiarity information: HABITUALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HABITUALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

According to habit or custom

Context example:

he habitually keeps his office door closed

Pertainym:

habitual (commonly used or practiced; usual)

 Context examples 

He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions; and, in observing the appearance of the country, the bearings of the roads, the difference of soil, the state of the harvest, the cottages, the cattle, the children, she found entertainment that could only have been heightened by having Edmund to speak to of what she felt.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We found that people who habitually accept their negative emotions experience fewer negative emotions, which adds up to better psychological health, said study senior author Iris Mauss, an associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley.

(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He seemed to think I had committed an impropriety in proposing to accompany him unmarried: as if I had not from the first hoped to find in him a brother, and habitually regarded him as such.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was evident that in their former intercourse, the passive disposition of the one had been habitually influenced by the active energy of the other: whence then had arisen Mr. Rochester's dismay when he heard of Mr. Mason's arrival?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)