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
When first seen, Tom Scutt’s grand salon has a look of cobwebbed desuetude, with its peeling walls and furniture sheathed in dusty plastic.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2016
Festivals frequently fell into desuetude or were revived, were increased or diminished, were shortened or prolonged at the will of the emperor, or under the caprice of the popular taste.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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Challenge, List 11
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List 10
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