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Webster 1913 Edition
Desuetude
Des′ue-tude
,Noun.
[L.
desuetudo
, from desuescere
, to grow out of use, disuse; de
+ suescere
to become used or accustomed: cf. F. désuétude
. See Custom
.] The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
The
desuetude
abrogated the law, which, before, custom had established. Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Desuetude
DESUETUDE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
desuetude
desuetude
See also: désuétude
English
Noun
desuetude (countable and uncountable, plural desuetudes)
- Disuse, obsolescence (for example, the state of a custom that is no longer observed nor practised).
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Bride of Lammermoor
- ... we 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 vassal, which is in some danger of falling into desuetude, owing to the general license and misrule of these present unhappy times.
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Bride of Lammermoor