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in chapter 2 of Jane Eyre, Jane recalls the horror of being enclosed in the red room: “My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. ”In this context, the word habitual means

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the best answer would be Customary

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“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Habitual here should mean, recurring or something which keeps happening and this "habitual mood" dampened the intensity of her anger,
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