All 3 Uses of
obsolete
in
Man And Superman
- And since what we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real, education, as you no doubt observed at Oxford, destroys, by supplantation, every mind that is not strong enough to see through the imposture and to use the great Masters of Arts as what they really are and no more: that is, patentees of highly questionable methods of thinking, and…†
Chpt Ded.
- He told me one day that you were to be Ann's guardian; and like a fool I began arguing with him about the folly of leaving a young woman under the control of an old man with obsolete ideas.†
Chpt 1
- [stupended] My ideas obsolete!†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
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(obsolete) no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better