desuetude
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Certainly we must now be set on a path to mental decay and desuetude.
From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 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
“Lawrence, by contrast, dealt with a situation in which just 13 states continued to prohibit sodomy, and even then most of those laws had fallen into desuetude, rarely being enforced at all.”
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2014
The profession of Knight Errantry having apparently fallen into desuetude, he had been compelled to resign himself to the prospect of a more humdrum occupation.
From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian
Vocabulary lists containing desuetude
Challenge, List 11
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List 10
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