Saturday, 10 October 2009

Desuetude

 
Desuetude is a state of inactivity or disuse; obsolescence (for example, the state of a custom that is no longer observed nor practised).

I guess a lot of the words I come up I with have reached a state of desuetude!
 
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2 comments:

  1. DawnTreader10 October 2009 at 07:47

    That one was not in my bedside dictionary. (It might be in some of the others, I'm too lazy to check right now.) I suppose the word itself is an example of a word in desuetude (oh my, the spelling of that word is hard to memorize!)

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  2. Scriptor Senex10 October 2009 at 08:03

    Yes, Dawn Treader - and it is hard to imagine the correct pronounciation as well. I think it is Deh-sweh-tewd.

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