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obsoleteness|ˈɒbsəliːtnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being obsolete.
1613Jackson Creed ii. xv. §6 The decay of Dialects, obsoletenesse of phrase..might breed some difficultie vnto posteritie. 1756Johnson Propos. Print. Shaks. Wks. 1787 IX. 233 The reader is therefore embarrassed at once with dead and with foreign languages, with obsoleteness and innovation. 1884Seeley in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 505 We are startled at the obsoleteness of the opinions he expresses. |