What is "nonuse"

Usage examples of "nonuse".

So little did I care for the story, and so unhappy was lover the nonuse of my name that I totally forgot about it, until nearly forty years later when I was going over my diary carefully in order to prepare my autobiography.

Reasons for nonuse of contraception by sexually active women aged 15-19.

Ah-badt-dabt-deah has given it to you, they told him, but the difference between men grows out of the use or nonuse of what is given them by Ah-badt-daht-deah.

It is therefore paradoxically fortunate for their survival that so many of the species who achieve relatively high standards of civilization lose through nonuse the very physical characteristics upon which, in earlier stages, their survival depended and without which civilization would not have been achievable.