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desuetude

[ UK /dɪsjˈuːətjˌuːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state of inactivity or disuse

How To Use desuetude In A Sentence

  • So the Pentium III is nearing desuetude and long live the Pentium 4.
  • Some churches have changed their doctrines; many more have changed their attitudes and let doctrines fall into desuetude.
  • There was a smell of desuetude, like the whiff of an old book long unopened, raincoats drooped from a hat stand like shrouds. FAIRYLAND
  • Docusoaps have achieved an unexpectedly large audience given the rather sad history of documentary in the Reithian public service tradition and the desuetude of ABC Documentary departments and in-house training.
  • Rote memorization was the most vexing problem, compounded by bleak seminary finances which effected a shortage of qualified teachers, overcrowding, a lack of teaching materials, and facilities in a state of utter desuetude.
  • The profoundest form of atheism is not the one that involves strenuously denying the existence of God but the one that lets theistic ways of talking fall into desuetude.
  • This provision has fallen into desuetude, and appears to have been used only on two occasions; in relation to margarine, and in relation to the market for beer.
  • The sad desuetude of the lid or titfer is a cause for curiosity as well as regret.
  • The railroad was completed in 1853, and with the advent of rail travel the stagecoach lines, which had contributed substantially to the Corner's prosperity, fell into desuetude.
  • The idea of the clause is to check runaway courts, but, for complicated reasons, the clause has fallen into desuetude.
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