单词 | desuetude |
释义 | des·ue·tude 1. < as to the Scottish statute it is presumably abrogated by desuetude — Frederick Pollock > < vexing myself today over the gradual desuetude of our correspondence — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < figureheads … are being used again after long years of desuetude — John Woodyatt > < there are those who foresee total desuetude for our society with the profit motive thus wantonly eliminated — Irwin Edman > 2. < an ancient custom that has fallen into desuetude > < we all have this profound unconscious, but it falls into atrophy and desuetude because most of us do not utilize it — L.K.Anspacher > : a state of disuse or neglect attended by deterioration < what energy and vision may do for an old school fast falling into desuetude — J.P.Marquand > : outmoded or discarded status < the purely speculative and seemingly impractical things should have fallen into disfavor and disrepute, if not positive desuetude — F.X.Meehan > |
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