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

That photograph, when seen on the gallery wall, potently conveys the quandary of a man, aging but still vigorous, who has been consigned to pampered desuetude in his Palm Desert retirement.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

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

If it were not for their pertinacious adherence to their traditional faith, the Brahminical creed, at least in the great centres of education, would have long since fallen into desuetude.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder