What is "outworn"

Usage examples of "outworn".

Zeus knew, that the place was actually a dump for outworn state secrets.

This, he claimed, was where similarly well-intentioned secret societies had missed the mark: by clinging to outworn magical and religious rituals.

The children of the rich were not supposed to notice the children of the poor, except on Boxing Day, on which occasion they were supposed to distribute sweets and whatever outworn or broken things they could no longer use.

He cast me off like an outworn glove, and now he calls me back when he at last has need of me.

Her own mother had not been noted for her needlework, preferring to cut bands of fine work from old, outworn garments and stitch them with nearly invisible stitches to new ones, rather than embroider anything of her own.

Each one carries along a quantity of inert and outworn ideas,--not infrequently there is an internally contradictory current.

All over the world socialists are breaking away from the stultifying influence of the outworn determinism.

Establishment in the past, who has upheld all its outworn dogmas and twentieth-century creeds.

Yet more than one pair of these have I outworn, and many more shall I outwear ere my journeys are ended.

The boy had had playmates, he knew, and as he had grown tired of them the witch had disposed of them like outworn toys.

The outworn creeds again believed, And the same round anew began, Which the weary world yet ever ran.

It was my object to break through the crust of those outworn opinions on which established institutions depend.

Despite their isolation, some of the girls came to realize they were being murdered as lip service to an outworn concept.

Indeed, he had not called up the smoke, thinking it an outworn custom.

And nevertheless from that mass of outworn routines and perilous innovations a few useful formulas have emerged here and there, just as they have in medicine.