desuetuden.
/ˈdɛswɪtjuːd/ a. A discontinuance of the use or practice (of anything); disuse; †protracted cessation from.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Desuetude, lacke of vse.
1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 131 A generall lazinesse and desuetude of Martiall Exercises.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie To Rdr. sig. A3 My desuetude from those younger Studies.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 139 By a desuetude and neglect of it.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iv. 160 Desuetude from their former Civility and Knowledge.
1706 J. Sergeant Acct. Chapter Bp. Chalcedon (1853) Pref. xv By a desuetude of acting, expire, and be buried in oblivion.
b. The passing into a state of disuse.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [noun] > falling out of use
passing away?c1425
obsoletion1804
desuetude1821
obsolescence1832
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 5/1 The gradual desuetude of old observances.
2. The condition or state into which anything falls when one ceases to use or practise it; the state of disuse.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [noun]
disusage1475
disaccustomance1502
discustom1603
unaccustomedness1611
disaccustomedness1632
dissuetudea1639
desuetude1650
disusance1685
disuse1699
insuetude1828
unfashion1876
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 14 To revive acts buried and brought in [= into] desuetude by Prelats.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity x. §22. 315 The weighty Truths of God were neglected, and, as it were, went into Desuetude.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3914/4 Reviving such [Laws] as are in desuetude.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 85 The same mode of cultivation is not yet entirely in desuetude in some distant parts of North Britain.
1826 Q. Rev. 34 6 This beautiful work..fell (as the Scots lawyers express it) into desuetude.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §2. 168 The exercise of rights which had practically passed into desuetude.
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