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desuetudinous

desuetudinous adjective: of or pertaining to desuetude; of a law or statute, no longer observed, practiced or enforced.

Adjective

desuetudinous (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to desuetude; of a law or statute, no longer observed, practiced or enforced.
    • though a statute banning unmarried partners from co-habiting was widely thought to be desueditudinous (the doctrinal equivalent of "blue"), and thus "merely symbolic", some local district attorneys relied on it quite heavily1994, Janet E. Halley, “Bowers v. Hardwick in the Renaissance”, in Jonathan Goldberg, editor, Queering the Renaissance, page 28

Origin of desuetudinous

From Latin dēsuētūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of dēsuētūdō, from dēsuēscō + -tūdō, from dē- + suēscō. By surface analysis, desue(te) + -tude + -ous.

Questions about desuetudinous

What does desuetudinous mean?
Desuetudinous means of or pertaining to desuetude; of a law or statute, no longer observed, practiced or enforced.
What part of speech is desuetudinous?
Desuetudinous is an adjective.

Words near desuetudinous in the dictionary

  1. desudation
  2. desudations
  3. desuete
  4. desuetude
  5. desuetudes
  6. desuetudinous
  7. desugar
  8. desugared
  9. desugaring
  10. desugars
  11. desuggestion

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