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Definition of the day : « disuse »
- noun state of non-use
- The use of the pronoun, the disuse of the grammar pulled him up short.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- Since the disuse of print, opticians have mostly gone to the poor-house.
- Extract from : « With The Eyes Shut » by Edward Bellamy
- As a result, we have no organs of hearing, for they have been atrophied from ages of disuse.
- Extract from : « Giants on the Earth » by Sterner St. Paul Meek
- In many cases habit or use and disuse have probably come into play.
- Extract from : « On the Origin of Species » by Charles Darwin
- The results of this method were so uncertain that the practice has fallen into disuse.
- Extract from : « Negritos of Zambales » by William Allan Reed
- He also admits that change of habits and food, use and disuse, are factors.
- Extract from : « Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution » by Alpheus Spring Packard
- I was in a cellar, which, apparently, had long been in disuse.
- Extract from : « Japhet in Search of a Father » by Frederick Marryat
- Also in many Houses the school was allowed to drop into disuse.
- Extract from : « The History of London » by Walter Besant
- We have seen that by disuse the muscles become emaciated and the bones soften.
- Extract from : « Popular Education » by Ira Mayhew