Crossword-Solution: DESUETUDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desuetude | n. | The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “DESUETUDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DISUSE, state of | 1 answer |
| Lack of use | 1 answer |
| No longer practising | 1 answer |
| STATE of disuse | 1 answer |
| State of being out of use | 1 answer |
| a state of inactivity or disuse | 1 answer |
| condition of not being in use | 1 answer |
| Obsolescence | 2 answers |
| disuse | 9 answers |
| Abandonment | 62 answers |
| End | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEZECM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DESUETUDE (5)
And hence, in the progressive centralisation of modern thought, we should expect the old form of fable to fall gradually into desuetude, and be gradually succeeded by another, which is a fable in all points except that it is not altogether fabulous.
The result of this historic alteration is that even in the Mother Church herself, where ascetic discipline has such a fixed traditional prestige as a factor of merit, it has largely come into desuetude, if not discredit.
The monoplane gradually fell into desuetude, mainly owing to the difficulty of making that type adequately strong without it becoming prohibitively heavy, and also because of its high landing speed and general lack of manoeuvrability.
Christening would seem to have faded out of this church long ago, for the font has the dust of desuetude thick upon it, and its wooden cover (shaped like an old-fashioned tureen-cover) looks as if it wouldn’t come off, upon requirement.
Greece, after her brief day of political supremacy, was sinking rapidly into desuetude, and the hard-headed Roman in the West was making himself master everywhere.
Quotes with DESUETUDE (3)
What’d you need?""Desuetude.""Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse.""Thanks, man.""That it?""Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.
Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox — finally irregulationary.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2009–2017).