Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of becoming obsolete; disuse; discontinuance.

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  • noun Obsolescence.

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Examples

  • So here's to us, dads, in our constant fight for relevance, our battle with obsoletion, and our ability to do the right thing despite our occasional desire to go on a three-week single-malt road trip with our best friends to Vegas.

    father, don't let them shoot my kite down 2006

  • So here's to us, dads, in our constant fight for relevance, our battle with obsoletion, and our ability to do the right thing despite our occasional desire to go on a three-week single-malt road trip with our best friends to Vegas.

    this little piggy made me puke 2006

  • You don't have any product obsoletion or anything like that in there?

    unknown title 2008

  • That’s fag for fig, metinkus, confessed, mhos for mhos, those who, would it not be for that dielectrick, were upon the point of obsoletion, and at the brink of from the pillary of the Nilsens and from the statutes of the Kongbullies and from the millestones of

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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