'havior
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black, / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, / Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, / That can denote me truly...;"
- "Her who had made him a pastime, bridging the winter across With a masque, a foolery petty and vain, amusing herself with his loss,— God! it had been but an insult throughout, her ’havior so sisterly free"
Etymology
From Middle English havour, a corruption of Old French aveir, avoir (“a having”), of same origin as English aver (“a workhorse”). The h is due to confusion with have.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: havour, aveir