WONTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wonted mean? 

• WONTED (adjective)
  The adjective WONTED has 1 sense:

1. commonly used or practiced; usual

  Familiarity information: WONTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WONTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commonly used or practiced; usual

Synonyms:

accustomed; customary; habitual; wonted

Context example:

with her wonted candor

Similar:

usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)

 Context examples 

It was as though it had always been, the wonted way of things.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was no tenseness in her body, her arms did not go around him, and her lips met his without their wonted pressure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Why did not Hans do something? say something? She looked at him and was about to speak, when she discovered that her tongue refused its wonted duty. There was a peculiar ache in her throat, and her mouth was dry and furry. She could only look at Hans, who, in turn, looked at her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

From less to more, I worked him up to considerable irritation; then, after he had retired, in dudgeon, quite to the other end of the room, I got up, and saying, I wish you good-night, sir, in my natural and wonted respectful manner, I slipped out by the side-door and got away.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was entreated to give them as much of her time as possible, invited for every day and all day long, or rather claimed as part of the family; and, in return, she naturally fell into all her wonted ways of attention and assistance, and on Charles's leaving them together, was listening to Mrs Musgrove's history of Louisa, and to Henrietta's of herself, giving opinions on business, and recommendations to shops; with intervals of every help which Mary required, from altering her ribbon to settling her accounts; from finding her keys, and assorting her trinkets, to trying to convince her that she was not ill-used by anybody; which Mary, well amused as she generally was, in her station at a window overlooking the entrance to the Pump Room, could not but have her moments of imagining.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He had to reinstate himself in all the wonted concerns of his Mansfield life: to see his steward and his bailiff; to examine and compute, and, in the intervals of business, to walk into his stables and his gardens, and nearest plantations; but active and methodical, he had not only done all this before he resumed his seat as master of the house at dinner, he had also set the carpenter to work in pulling down what had been so lately put up in the billiard-room, and given the scene-painter his dismissal long enough to justify the pleasing belief of his being then at least as far off as Northampton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)