desuetudinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: desue-tudi-nous
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adj

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

Example Sentences

"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 heavily"

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Prefix: dē-
Root: dēsuētūdō
Suffix: -ous, dēsuēscō

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