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habitual

/həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/ noun C2
  1. One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender. (colloquial)
  2. A construction representing something done habitually.

Plural habituals

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The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 21 · C1
Pardon me for neglecting to profit by your advice, which on every other subject shall be my constant guide, though in the case before us I consider myself more fitted by education and habitual study to decide on what is right than a young lady like yourself;” and with a low bow he left her to attack Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 111 · B2
She was beautiful, but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but its natural waves seemed somewhat rebellious; her eyes, of the same color as her hair, were surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown, while her whole physiognomy wore that expression of firmness and decision so little in accordance with the gentler attributes of her sex—her nose was precisely what a sculptor would have chosen for a chiselled Juno.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 543 · C1
The count received him with his habitual smile.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 700 · C1

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