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desuetudinous en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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 heavily 1994, Janet E. Halley, “Bowers v. Hardwick in the Renaissance”, in Jonathan Goldberg, editor, Queering the Renaissance, page 28: