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# wont

«wont» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **used to; accustomed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

used to; accustomed

### part of speech

noun; adjective (in "were wont to")

### meaning for a pupil

Accustomed; in the habit of doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wont/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it is formal and old-fashioned; "wont" is also a misspelling of "won't" in the English Fairy Tales sentence, where it means "will not".

### examples

- We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wont/#x1)
- I'll take away the last little one, and you wont have to bother about her.” (English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wont/#x2)
- And the ass said unto Balaam: 'Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?' And he said: 'Nay.' (Torah NUM.22.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wont/#x3)

### primary record

wont

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 25 (Torah 4, tales 21, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.880/)
- [Turn Thee towards me, and be gracious unto me, as is Thy wont to do unto those that love Thy name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2297/)
- [Hear my voice according unto Thy lovingkindness; quicken me, O LORD, as Thou art wont.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2314/)
- [Great are Thy compassions, O LORD; quicken me as Thou art wont.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2321/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wont» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wont/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.