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Obsoleteness   Listen
noun
Obsoleteness  n.  
1.
The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
2.
(Biol.) Indistinctness; want of development.





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"Obsoleteness" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the introduction to a somewhat longer one, for which I shall solicit insertion on your next open day. The use of the old ballad word 'Ladie' for Lady, is the only piece of obsoleteness in it; and as it is professedly a tale of ancient times, I trust that "the affectionate lovers of venerable antiquity," (as Cambden says) will grant me their pardon, and perhaps may be induced to admit a force and propriety in it. A heavier objection may be adduced against the Author, ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull


Words linked to "Obsoleteness" :   oldness, superannuation, obsolete


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