obsoleteness
Example Sentences
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The communities “are very angry because of the destruction of their livelihoods resulting from the obsoleteness of Shell’s equipment and are concerned the regulator and Shell will blame sabotage by the residents,” Dumnamene said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
She was always attracted by its age and its stranded obsoleteness.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Their sacred books, their Vedas, were become unintelligible to them, not so much from obsoleteness of character, as because they no longer possessed the higher knowledge which was the key to that sanctuary.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
At the obsoleteness of Chaucer's own diction this critic, who writes entirely "for the better brought-up sort," is obliged to shake his learned head.
From Chaucer by Sir Adolphus William Ward
But my obsoleteness rendered me only more suited to the service in which I was enlisted.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829 by Various
