How To Use desuetude In A Sentence
- Even if tea were indeed the virtuous drink of an industrious sobriety, something other than rational health benefits must have been the spur, otherwise tobacco and opiates would have fallen into desuetude.
- The joint university-WEA committees were falling into desuetude by the 1980s, as paths continued to diverge: competition for students became as common as collaboration.
- In that diocese such precautions are probably unnecessary since confession - now called the Sacrament of Reconciliation by almost nobody - has long since fallen into desuetude.
- Although some writers consider that general principles as a source of international law have virtually fallen into desuetude, others give the concept a more substantive content.
- These principles are not new; they fall into desuetude.
- He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
- He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
- How he would chuckle to behold globes and seas, and empires, fall into such irreverend antics because some poor earthling, be he kingling or common sodling, goes into desuetude, either by the operation of natural laws, or the sharp application of steel or shot! Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
- Birds, on the contrary, are not hunted, but shot in the air, or taken with nets and other devices, which is called fowling; or they are pursued and taken by birds of prey, which is called hawking, a species of sport now fallen almost entirely into desuetude in The Book of Household Management
- Methinks these terms reek of desuetude which really is a legal term, correct? "It cannot be gainsaid..."
