Tuesday, 4 February 2020

WORD: Desuetude

[des-wi-tood, -tyood ]

[noun]

The state of being no longer used or practiced.

A very few people, not appearing to be up to much, sat far apart at desks in a dimly lighted panorama of desuetude.

PETER SCHJELDAHL, "THE VILLAGE VOICE'S MAGIC MIRROR," THE NEW YORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The practice of “leaving a calling card” may have fallen into desuetude among human beings, but as a description of pet behavior the phrase continues to have legs.

CULLEN MURPHY, "ANTICIPATION," THE ATLANTIC, NOVEMBER 1998

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