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Definition of Desuetude
1. Noun. A state of inactivity or disuse.
Definition of Desuetude
1. n. The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
Definition of Desuetude
1. Noun. disuse, obsolescence (for example, the state of a custom that is no longer observed nor practised) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desuetude
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desuetude
Literary usage of Desuetude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature and Sources of the Law by John Chipman Gray, Roland Gray (1921)
"There does not seem often to have come up any ques- desuetude tion of the desuetude
of the statutes of the United States in the or of the several States. ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"desuetude, a technical term in the law of Scotland, signifying that repeal or
... But by desuetude is meant something more than mere non-use for a period of ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... esses fell into desuetude is in part the abuses of the Montañista, who allowed
women to preach, while Montanus himself went about with two women, ..."
4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"At present the royalists of all shades in France are in a condition of innocuous
desuetude. Out of sight, out of mind, the modern form of a well-known saw ..."
5. A Treatise of Universal Jurisprudence by John Penford Thomas (1829)
"All written laws are binding until they are re- or desuetude. pealed. To neglect
the execution of positive laws, on the ground of their antiquity, ..."
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