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
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
Since the commencement of the present century, the custom of consigning to a dungeon the brothers and kindred of the reigning monarch has fallen into desuetude in Northern Abyssinia.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
Vocabulary lists containing desuetude
Challenge, List 11
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List 10
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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