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   desuetude

   /ˈdɛswɪtjuːd/

   noun

   • 1. a state of disuse: formal "the docks fell into desuetude"

   Word Origin early 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’.

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   What does desuetude mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! DESUETUDE meaning: 1. the principle that laws can stop having any legal force when they have not been used for a long…. Learn more.

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   What does desuetude mean in law?

   • In law, desuetude (; from French désuétude, from Latin desuetudo 'outdated, no longer custom') is a doctrine that causes statutes, similar legislation, or legal principles to lapse and become unenforceable by a long habit of non-enforcement or lapse of time. It is what happens to laws that are not repealed when they become obsolete.

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   How do you use desuetude in a sentence?

   • loading examples... Use the noun desuetude to say that something is not active or not being used, like the desuetude of a neglected park, with its overgrown ballfields and broken playground equipment.

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   What is a state of desuetude?

   • The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude. But it has lost by desuetude much of this branch of composition, which it is desirable however to resume. In time, all this criminal code was to fall into desuetude, and no one to-day wishes it back again.

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   What does a drop to desuetude mean?

   • Rejected or neglected in one generation, they revive in another; nor can they be impaired by any desuetude. I had been so busy for several months that all my symptoms had sunk into desuetude. A drop to desuetude may of its last half be far more silent than of its first. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.

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   What does it mean if a law falls into desuetude?

   • The condition of not being used or practiced any more; disuse. Laws fallen into desuetude. A state of disuse or inactivity. From the French désuétude, from the Latin dēsuētūdo (“disuse”). Nor has it yet fallen into desuetude. His theology is strongly tinged with Platonism, and this may account for his falling into desuetude.

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   Use the noun desuetude to say that something is not active or not being used, like the desuetude of a neglected park, with its overgrown ballfields and broken playground equipment.

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   Synonyms for DESUETUDE: neglect, disuse, abandonment, inactivity, idleness, desertion, abeyance, latency; Antonyms of DESUETUDE: use

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   Desuetude definition: A state of disuse or inactivity.

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   DÉSUÉTUDE translate: disuse. Learn more in the Cambridge French-English Dictionary.