All 10 Uses of
accustomed
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- He began to become accustomed to the atmosphere of the place.†
Chpt 1.2.6accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- It is true that it appears to be repugnant to you; and it is very natural, for you bourgeois are not accustomed to it.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- But these are the principal masses which were then to be distinguished when the eye began to accustom itself to this tumult of edifices.†
Chpt 1.3.2accustom = to make someone used to something
- When a little lad, it was between Claude Frollo's legs that he was accustomed to seek refuge, when the dogs and the children barked after him.†
Chpt 1.4.4accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- 'tis a name to which one must get accustomed, that is all.†
Chpt 2.7.8 *
- In this he was not mistaken, there was then no "Gazette des Tribunaux;" and as not a week passed which had not its counterfeiter to boil, or its witch to hang, or its heretic to burn, at some one of the innumerable justices of Paris, people were so accustomed to seeing in all the squares the ancient feudal Themis, bare armed, with sleeves stripped up, performing her duty at the gibbets, the ladders, and the pillories, that they hardly paid any heed to it.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- She had been so long unaccustomed to sleep!†
Chpt 2.9.3unaccustomed to = not used to (not adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- She often reproached herself for not feeling a gratitude which should close her eyes, but decidedly, she could not accustom herself to the poor bellringer.†
Chpt 2.9.4accustom = to make someone used to something
- Gringoire followed him, being accustomed to obey him, like all who had once approached that man so full of ascendency.†
Chpt 2.10.1accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- My father, Charles the Seventh, was accustomed to say that the truth was ailing; I thought her dead, and that she had found no confessor.†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definition:
to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something.