Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wont
Participle: wont
Gerund: wonting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wont |
| you | wont |
| he;she;it | wonts |
| we | wont |
| you | wont |
| they | wont |
Perfect
| I | have wont |
| you | have wont |
| he;she;it | has wont |
| we | have wont |
| you | have wont |
| they | have wont |
Past
| I | wont |
| you | wont |
| he;she;it | wont |
| we | wont |
| you | wont |
| they | wont |
Pluperfect
| I | had wont |
| you | had wont |
| he;she;it | had wont |
| we | had wont |
| you | had wont |
| they | had wont |
Future
| I | will wont |
| you | will wont |
| he;she;it | will wont |
| we | will wont |
| you | will wont |
| they | will wont |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wont |
| you | will have wont |
| he;she;it | will have wont |
| we | will have wont |
| you | will have wont |
| they | will have wont |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wont |
| you | wont |
| he;she;it | wont |
| we | wont |
| you | wont |
| they | wont |
Perfect
| I | have wont |
| you | have wont |
| he;she;it | have wont |
| we | have wont |
| you | have wont |
| they | have wont |
Imperfect
| I | wont |
| you | wont |
| he;she;it | wont |
| we | wont |
| you | wont |
| they | wont |
Pluperfect
| I | had wont |
| you | had wont |
| he;she;it | had wont |
| we | had wont |
| you | had wont |
| they | had wont |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wont |
| you | would wont |
| he;she;it | would wont |
| we | would wont |
| you | would wont |
| they | would wont |
Perfect
| I | would have wont |
| you | would have wont |
| he;she;it | would have wont |
| we | would have wont |
| you | would have wont |
| they | would have wont |
Imperative
| you | wont |
| we | Let's wont |
| you | wont |
Verbs conjugated like 'wont'
beset,
broadcast,
burst,
bust,
cost,
crosscut,
cut,
forecast,
hit,
hurt,
inset,
let,
misread,
overset,
overspread,
put,
read,
rebroadcast,
recut,
relet, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wont'
want,
won,
wone,
wong,
wot,
ant,
boat,
bolt,
bond,
bone,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "accustomed," O.E. wunod, pp. of wunian "to dwell, be accustomed," from P.Gmc. *wun- "to be content, to rejoice" (cf. O.S. wunon, O.Fris. wonia "to dwell, remain, be used to," O.H.G. wonen, Ger. wohnen "to dwell;" related to O.E. winnan, gewinnan "to win" (see win) and to wean. The noun meaning "habitual usage, custom" is attested from c.1300. Wonted is first attested 1408, an unconscious double pp.
2. From Middle English wonten (“to accustom”), from wont (adjective). See above.
Sample Sentences
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I have heard it remarked by the old farmers, that when beasts are first transferred from one place to another, that if they keep them without food for two or three days, it will go far towards wonting them to their new situation. [1830, [Joseph Plumb Martin], “Campaign of 1780”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier; Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents that Occurred within His Own Observation, Hallowell, Me.: Printed by Glazier, Masters & Co. No. 1, Kennebec-Row, →OCLC, page 141:]
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What be the ſweet delights of learning a treaſure, / That wont with Comick ſock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with pleaſure / The liſtners eyes, and eares with melodie; […] [c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, →OCLC; republished in “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in The Faerie Qveen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected, London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617, →OCLC]
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But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most ſway, / And to all great exploites them ſelues inclind: […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book III, canto II, stanza II, page 411:]