Desuetudes [noun]

It turns heavily on great creaking hinges stiff from long desuetude, and swings to after us as with an ominous sigh.

Toasts have also fallen into "desuetude" at private dinners.

Having no means the Commission could do absolutely nothing, and hence may be said to be in a state of "innocuous desuetude."

James is strewn over about forty—part of which must go into desuetude, have perhaps done so already.

After the day of Pope the epistle again fell into desuetude, or occasional use, in England.

In active service, brass bands and "dress parades" fell largely into "innocuous desuetude."

The history of the desuetude, which we behold and deplore, is simply this.

The system of periodical redistribution had in the meantime fallen into desuetude.

This is the mere revival of an old claim, too vast to be allowed to lapse from desuetude.

She had left them a Social Position—one, which even after twenty years of desuetude, was fit for use.