Synonyms for desuetude

Grammar : Noun

Spell : des-wi-tood, -tyood

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛs wɪˌtud, -ˌtyud

Définition of desuetude

Origin : 1620s, from Middle French désuétude (16c.), from Latin desuetudo "disuse," from desuetus, past participle of desuescere "become unaccustomed to," from de- "away, from" (see de-) + suescere "become used to" (see mansuetude).

noun state of not being in use

Example sentences :

This fashion, Germans inform you, is falling into desuetude; but it falls slowly.
Extract from : « Home Life in Germany » by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

Toasts have also fallen into "desuetude" at private dinners.
Extract from : « The Complete Bachelor » by Walter Germain

No lapse of years seems to have brought a law once promulgated into desuetude.
Extract from : « The Eighteen Christian Centuries » by James White

There was not one inch of her that did not ache from desuetude, from moral inertia.
Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 » by Various

But it seems that up to the cession, these regulations had fallen into desuetude.
Extract from : « Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime » by William Henry Atherton

They appear to have fallen into desuetude in the sixth century before our era.
Extract from : « The Ceramic Art » by Jennie J. Young

The practice was never popular, and has now fallen into desuetude.
Extract from : « The Mother of Parliaments » by Harry Graham

The history of the desuetude, which we behold and deplore, is simply this.
Extract from : « Rites and Ritual » by Philip Freeman

The system of periodical redistribution had in the meantime fallen into desuetude.
Extract from : « Japan » by Various

These principles are not new; they have fallen into desuetude.
Extract from : « Some Imagist Poets » by Richard Aldington

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