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Definition of the day : « desuetude »
- noun state of not being in use
- This fashion, Germans inform you, is falling into desuetude; but it falls slowly.
- Extract from : « Home Life in Germany » by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
- Toasts have also fallen into "desuetude" at private dinners.
- Extract from : « The Complete Bachelor » by Walter Germain
- No lapse of years seems to have brought a law once promulgated into desuetude.
- Extract from : « The Eighteen Christian Centuries » by James White
- There was not one inch of her that did not ache from desuetude, from moral inertia.
- Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 » by Various
- But it seems that up to the cession, these regulations had fallen into desuetude.
- Extract from : « Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime » by William Henry Atherton
- They appear to have fallen into desuetude in the sixth century before our era.
- Extract from : « The Ceramic Art » by Jennie J. Young
- The practice was never popular, and has now fallen into desuetude.
- Extract from : « The Mother of Parliaments » by Harry Graham
- The history of the desuetude, which we behold and deplore, is simply this.
- Extract from : « Rites and Ritual » by Philip Freeman
- The system of periodical redistribution had in the meantime fallen into desuetude.
- Extract from : « Japan » by Various
- These principles are not new; they have fallen into desuetude.
- Extract from : « Some Imagist Poets » by Richard Aldington