Usage
['juːsɪdʒ] or ['jusɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written; 'English usage'; 'a usage borrowed from French'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.
(n.) Manners; conduct; behavior.
(n.) Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.
(n.) Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.
(n.) Experience.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Treatment.[2]. Practice (long continued), custom, use, habit, prescription.
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Definition
n. act or mode of using: treatment: practice: custom.—ns. U′sager one of the non-jurors who maintained 'the usages'—mixed chalices oblation in prayer of consecration and prayer for the dead.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The First Person of the literary Trinity the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
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Examples
- Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The inferior ranks of people must, in that country, suffer patiently the usage which their superiors think proper to give them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Th e usage is so completely established that by the majority it is simply taken for granted. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Gentle usage renders the slave not only more faithful, but more intelligent, and, therefore, upon a double account, more useful. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is not really long, in weeks or months; but, in my usage and experience, it is a weary, weary while. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She clung to Ursula, who, through long usage was inured to this violation of a dark, uncreated, hostile world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The assize of bread is, so far as I know, the only remnant of this ancient usage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In popular usage we apply it only to corrupting businesses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If I once shook the foundations of the sacred confidence and usage, in virtue of which it was given to me, it was lost, and could never be recovered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Harsh feelings produce harsh usage, and this by reaction quenches the sentiments that gave it birth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Miss Osborne, George's aunt, was a faded old spinster, broken down by more than forty years of dulness and coarse usage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Common affection might have been satisfied with common usages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She volunteered to copy many of his letters, and adroitly altered the spelling of them so as to suit the usages of the present day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was Pliny who wrote, at the beginning of the Christian era, that All the usages of civilised life depend in a remarkable degree upon the employment of paper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It leaveth no profit for the usages of the moneys; and, besides, the good horse may have suffered wrong in this day's encounter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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