desuetude

n. 废止, 不用 [法] 废止, 废绝, 法律的失效

发音

UK /ˈdɛswɪtjuːd/
其它
UK /dɪˈs(j)uːɪtjuːd/
其它
UK /-tʃuːd/
US /ˈdɛswəˌt(j)ud/
US /dəˈsuəˌtud/

词形变化

desuetudes 复数 desuetudes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.

    正式 不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.

    An instance of this.

    废止

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  3. 3.

    Chiefly followed by from or of: a cessation of practising or using something.

    可数 正式 废旧 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

inaction inactivity inactiveness

词源

From Late Middle English desuetude, dissuetude (“discontinuance of a practice, disuse”), from Middle French désuétude (“obsolescence”) (modern French désuétude), from Latin dēsuētūdo (“discontinuance of a practice or a habit, disuse”), from dēsuētus + -tūdō (“suffix forming abstract nouns indicating conditions or states”). Dēsuētus is the perfect passive participle of dēsuēscō (“to make unaccustomed”), from de- (prefix having a reversing or undoing effect) + suēscō (“to become accustomed or used to; (Late Latin) to accustom, habituate, train”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”), in the sense “to set as one’s own”).

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