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

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

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

The reader is, therefore, embarrassed at once with dead and with foreign languages, with obsoleteness and innovation.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

Their sacred books, their Vedas, were become unintelligible to them, not so much from obsoleteness of character, as because they no longer possessed the higher knowledge which was the key to that sanctuary.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

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