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Definition of desuetude in English: desuetudenoun dəˈsjuːətjuːdˈdɛswɪtjuːdˈdɛswəˌt(j)ud mass nounformal A state of disuse. 〈正式〉废弃，不用 the docks fell into desuetude 这些码头已废弃不用了。 Example sentencesExamples - So the Pentium III is nearing desuetude and long live the Pentium 4.
- In that diocese such precautions are probably unnecessary since confession - now called the Sacrament of Reconciliation by almost nobody - has long since fallen into desuetude.
- Rote memorization was the most vexing problem, compounded by bleak seminary finances which effected a shortage of qualified teachers, overcrowding, a lack of teaching materials, and facilities in a state of utter desuetude.
- Even if tea were indeed the virtuous drink of an industrious sobriety, something other than rational health benefits must have been the spur, otherwise tobacco and opiates would have fallen into desuetude.
- Some churches have changed their doctrines; many more have changed their attitudes and let doctrines fall into desuetude.
- The joint university-WEA committees were falling into desuetude by the 1980s, as paths continued to diverge: competition for students became as common as collaboration.
- The railroad was completed in 1853, and with the advent of rail travel the stagecoach lines, which had contributed substantially to the Corner's prosperity, fell into desuetude.
- This provision has fallen into desuetude, and appears to have been used only on two occasions; in relation to margarine, and in relation to the market for beer.
- The idea of the clause is to check runaway courts, but, for complicated reasons, the clause has fallen into desuetude.
- In the beginning I had a hard dose of culture shock and left all things that reminded me of home fall into desuetude.
- The sad desuetude of the lid or titfer is a cause for curiosity as well as regret.
- Although some writers consider that general principles as a source of international law have virtually fallen into desuetude, others give the concept a more substantive content.
- He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
- While a small trade-off may take place for a new subway entrance or refurbished park, Governor's Island, an enormous opportunity, has languished in picturesque desuetude since its transfer from the federal government in 2003.
- Shrines fallen into desuetude were primed with sequestered objects and reprimed with new castings.
- They deal with the ability of the Law Society to make rules, and it is very much part of the plan that the New Zealand Law Society is to be the dominant animal in all of these events, and that the district law societies will fade into desuetude.
- In its external manifestation, the new stage ballet represented a revival of the old court ballet, which had fallen into desuetude when Louis XIV had ceased to dance in 1670.
- Docusoaps have achieved an unexpectedly large audience given the rather sad history of documentary in the Reithian public service tradition and the desuetude of ABC Documentary departments and in-house training.
- The profoundest form of atheism is not the one that involves strenuously denying the existence of God but the one that lets theistic ways of talking fall into desuetude.
- These principles are not new; they fall into desuetude.
Synonyms non-use, non-employment, lack of use
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense 'cessation'): from French, from Latin desuetudo, from desuet- 'made unaccustomed', from the verb desuescere, from de- (expressing reversal) + suescere 'be accustomed'. Definition of desuetude in US English: desuetudenounˈdɛswəˌt(j)udˈdeswəˌt(y)o͞od formal A state of disuse. 〈正式〉废弃，不用 the docks fell into desuetude 这些码头已废弃不用了。 Example sentencesExamples - The sad desuetude of the lid or titfer is a cause for curiosity as well as regret.
- So the Pentium III is nearing desuetude and long live the Pentium 4.
- Although some writers consider that general principles as a source of international law have virtually fallen into desuetude, others give the concept a more substantive content.
- The railroad was completed in 1853, and with the advent of rail travel the stagecoach lines, which had contributed substantially to the Corner's prosperity, fell into desuetude.
- In its external manifestation, the new stage ballet represented a revival of the old court ballet, which had fallen into desuetude when Louis XIV had ceased to dance in 1670.
- Docusoaps have achieved an unexpectedly large audience given the rather sad history of documentary in the Reithian public service tradition and the desuetude of ABC Documentary departments and in-house training.
- Shrines fallen into desuetude were primed with sequestered objects and reprimed with new castings.
- In that diocese such precautions are probably unnecessary since confession - now called the Sacrament of Reconciliation by almost nobody - has long since fallen into desuetude.
- This provision has fallen into desuetude, and appears to have been used only on two occasions; in relation to margarine, and in relation to the market for beer.
- While a small trade-off may take place for a new subway entrance or refurbished park, Governor's Island, an enormous opportunity, has languished in picturesque desuetude since its transfer from the federal government in 2003.
- Even if tea were indeed the virtuous drink of an industrious sobriety, something other than rational health benefits must have been the spur, otherwise tobacco and opiates would have fallen into desuetude.
- Rote memorization was the most vexing problem, compounded by bleak seminary finances which effected a shortage of qualified teachers, overcrowding, a lack of teaching materials, and facilities in a state of utter desuetude.
- The idea of the clause is to check runaway courts, but, for complicated reasons, the clause has fallen into desuetude.
- The profoundest form of atheism is not the one that involves strenuously denying the existence of God but the one that lets theistic ways of talking fall into desuetude.
- In the beginning I had a hard dose of culture shock and left all things that reminded me of home fall into desuetude.
- He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
- Some churches have changed their doctrines; many more have changed their attitudes and let doctrines fall into desuetude.
- The joint university-WEA committees were falling into desuetude by the 1980s, as paths continued to diverge: competition for students became as common as collaboration.
- They deal with the ability of the Law Society to make rules, and it is very much part of the plan that the New Zealand Law Society is to be the dominant animal in all of these events, and that the district law societies will fade into desuetude.
- These principles are not new; they fall into desuetude.
Synonyms non-use, non-employment, lack of use
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense ‘cessation’): from French, from Latin desuetudo, from desuet- ‘made unaccustomed’, from the verb desuescere, from de- (expressing reversal) + suescere ‘be accustomed’. |