OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 33785

desuetude

/ˈdɛswɪtjuːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desuetud • desuso
The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence; (countable) an instance of this.
These are thing to make modern agriculturists hold up their hands and stare; but the same mode of cultivation is not yet entirely in desuetude in some distant parts of North Britai…
[W]e of the house of Ravenswood do our endeavour in keeping up, by all just and lawful exertion of our baronial authority, that due and fitting connexion betwixt superior and vassa…
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