Both Uses of
obsolete
in
Major Barbara
- Across the crest runs a platform of concrete, with a parapet which suggests a fortification, because there is a huge cannon of the obsolete Woolwich Infant pattern peering across it at the town.†
Act 3
- It scraps its obsolete steam engines and dynamos; but it won't scrap its old prejudices and its old moralities and its old religions and its old political constitutions.†
Act 3 *
Definition:
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(obsolete) no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better