desuetude

• The Free Trade League bristled up at this resurgence of the protectionist champions, but Disraeli was too wise to invite a renewal of that contest which the voice of the nation had settled, and the subject was left to lapse into innocuous desuetude for half a century. —  Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
• Laws that have fallen into desuetude are the most terrible of all laws, when the cause of the desuetude is the badness of the law And these are not groundless suppositions, and least of all in our country. —  Tragic Sense Of Life
• The one practice he did not suffer to fall into desuetude was his daily bolt into the Salles de Jeu; of that she could always be —  The Admirable Tinker Child of the World
• And what the hell was desuetude, anyway SIX K ate worked the phone for a while from her desk, first checking on Ian Nicholson’s alibi—and indeed, all was as he told her, from his Saturday motel to his Sunday arrival in Seattle—then trying to get a handle on the history of this document with the odd coincidence. —  The Art of Detection
• The feudal taxation had fallen into desuetude. —  Andrew Marvell

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