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desuetude🔊

The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence; an instance of this.

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These are thing to make modern agriculturists hold up their hands and stare; but the same mode of cultivation is not yet entirely in desuetude in some distant parts of North Britain, and may be witnessed in full force and exercise in the Zetland Archipelago.

(obsolete) A cessation of practicing or using something.

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