How To Use Desuetude In A Sentence
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So the Pentium III is nearing desuetude and long live the Pentium 4.
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Some churches have changed their doctrines; many more have changed their attitudes and let doctrines fall into desuetude.
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There was a smell of desuetude, like the whiff of an old book long unopened, raincoats drooped from a hat stand like shrouds.
FAIRYLAND
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The sad desuetude of the lid or titfer is a cause for curiosity as well as regret.
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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.
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The idea of the clause is to check runaway courts, but, for complicated reasons, the clause has fallen into desuetude.
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In its external manifestation, the new stage ballet represented a revival of the old court ballet, which had fallen into desuetude when Louis XIV had ceased to dance in 1670.
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Shrines fallen into desuetude were primed with sequestered objects and reprimed with new castings.
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While a small trade-off may take place for a new subway entrance or refurbished park, Governor's Island, an enormous opportunity, has languished in picturesque desuetude since its transfer from the federal government in 2003.
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Even if tea were indeed the virtuous drink of an industrious sobriety, something other than rational health benefits must have been the spur, otherwise tobacco and opiates would have fallen into desuetude.
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In the beginning I had a hard dose of culture shock and left all things that reminded me of home fall into desuetude.
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They deal with the ability of the Law Society to make rules, and it is very much part of the plan that the New Zealand Law Society is to be the dominant animal in all of these events, and that the district law societies will fade into desuetude.
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Methinks these terms reek of desuetude which really is a legal term, correct?
"It cannot be gainsaid..."
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Birds, on the contrary, are not hunted, but shot in the air, or taken with nets and other devices, which is called fowling; or they are pursued and taken by birds of prey, which is called hawking, a species of sport now fallen almost entirely into desuetude in
The Book of Household Management
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How he would chuckle to behold globes and seas, and empires, fall into such irreverend antics because some poor earthling, be he kingling or common sodling, goes into desuetude, either by the operation of natural laws, or the sharp application of steel or shot!
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
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He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
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These principles are not new; they fall into desuetude.
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Although some writers consider that general principles as a source of international law have virtually fallen into desuetude, others give the concept a more substantive content.
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In that diocese such precautions are probably unnecessary since confession - now called the Sacrament of Reconciliation by almost nobody - has long since fallen into desuetude.
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The joint university-WEA committees were falling into desuetude by the 1980s, as paths continued to diverge: competition for students became as common as collaboration.
