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desuetude::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | inaction, inactiveness, inactivity |
Examples of desuetude
desuetude
This practice fell into desuetude in the second millennium, but has been revived in some churches.
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It had a feeling of tropical desuetude along with a porch, a net-swathed double bed and a private bath.
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Many argue that impeachment has fallen into desuetude.
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Enter the George Ade Memorial Association, formed in 1963, and 20 years and $100,000 later Hazelden has been brought back from desuetude.
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There remained more than 100 unreformed boroughs, which generally either fell into desuetude or were replaced later under the terms of the Act.
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In the years since then, the art of bel canto so prized by Italian singers of the time has fallen into desuetude among their operatic descendants.
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Alas, the custom has largely fallen into desuetude since Suetonius, who as the Emperor Hadrian's private secretary had the opportunity-and encouragement-to sift imperial dossiers.
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One could dismiss all of this as overblown hype but for the fact that in recent decades, the American right has revived after being in virtual desuetude for most of the 1970s.
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- A state of inactivity or disuse
- In law, desuetude (from the Latin desuetudo, outdated, no longer custom) is a doctrine that causes statutes, similar legislation or legal principles to lapse and become unenforceable by a long habit of non-enforcement or lapse of time. ...
- Disuse, obsolescence (for example, the state of a custom that is no longer observed nor practised)
- Discontinuance from use or exercise; disuse
- Disuse; a state of being no longer practiced or customary
- The state of being unused; legally, the doctrine by which a law or treaty is rendered obsolete because of disuse. The concept encompasses situations in which a court refuses to enforce an unused law even if the law has not been repealed.
- Noun - the condition of not being used or practiced any more; disuse
