Meaning desuetude
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desuetudedisuseThis custom was kept up until early in this century, when it fell into desuetude.
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desuetude1620s, from Middle French désuétude (16c.), from Latin desuetudo "disuse," from desuetus, past participle of desuescere "become unaccustomed to," from de- "away, from" (s [..]
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desuetude[Latin desuetudo disuse, from desuescere to lose the habit of] : a doctrine holding that a statute may be abrogated because of its long disuse
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desuetude(n) a state of inactivity or disuse
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