desuetude

However, there are those of us who embrace desuetude as an old friend in political history.

That someone will have to put prices up to cover periods of desuetude.

The doctrine of desuetude is not favoured in the common law tradition.

Then there came the several days of golden desuetude.

Then the long night of innocuous desuetude set in.

There is neither joy nor community in their desuetude.

"Look up their battle records and you might appreciate their present desuetude more."

"Without his active leadership, the fund might have receded into desuetude.

Once the custom was encouraged, but now is much neglected, and perhaps soon will fall into desuetude."

From that time forth conservators fell into practical desuetude.

Kerry has rescued this archaic term from its desuetude.

The building's physical desuetude is, however, helped along by bright sunlight streaming through a bank of fanlight windows.

And the dramatic this, which used to be in fashion on radio to begin a sentence, has fallen into an innocuous desuetude.

From this extract it is evident that in 1786 the custom was ancient, and had somewhat fallen into desuetude.

So a kind of truce settled over the town, a blazing desuetude, while all waited for "the fifty" to pass.

His father's precautionary checks and balances dropped into desuetude.

By the early nineteenth century, the ancient remedy of deodands had largely fallen into desuetude.

Many argue that impeachment has fallen into desuetude.

This practice fell into desuetude in the second millennium, but has been revived in some churches.

Desuetude does not apply to violations of the United States Constitution.

For her, ripping off a hated agency could serve the ultimate cause of driving it into disrepute or desuetude.

Don't let it fall into desuetude.

Given the frequency with which signs of decay and desuetude appear in the pictures, one could see his work as a prolonged meditation on mortality.

Wisconsin and Minnesota have had partial public funding since the 1970s, but the systems have largely fallen into desuetude.

There remained more than 100 unreformed boroughs, which generally either fell into desuetude or were replaced later under the terms of the Act.