desuetude

Example Sentences

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Certainly we must now be set on a path to mental decay and desuetude.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

This is the eschaton through lack of access, but also through human atrophy, debility, the desuetude of critical function.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020

A very few people, not appearing to be up to much, sat far apart at desks in a dimly lighted panorama of desuetude.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2018

Meaning when you have a statute that hasn't been enforced in 215 years, there's a concept in the law called desuetude.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2017

After the day of Pope the epistle again fell into desuetude, or occasional use, in England.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various