obsoleteness

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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

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 Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

She was always attracted by its age and its stranded obsoleteness.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Therefore, in spite of its obsoleteness in matters of fact, his history remains readable, as a body of descriptive criticism, or a continuous literary essay.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

In his Road Book of England and Wales, he has done what Mr. Peel is now doing with our old Acts of Parliament—consolidating their worth, and rejecting their obsoleteness.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 by Various