abusion

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  1. Misuse; evil or corrupt usage; violation of right or propriety. Redress the abusions and exactions. Act of Parl. No. xxxiii. (23 Hen. VIII.). Shame light on him, that through so false illusion, Doth turne the name of Souldiers to abusion. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, l. 220.
  2. Reproachful or contumelious language; insult.
  3. Deceit; illusion. They speken of magic and abusion. Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, l. 116.

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  1. from Middle English abusion, from Old French abusion = Provencal abuzio = Spanish abusion = Portuguese abusão = Italian abusione, from Latin abusio(n-), misuse, in rhetoric catachresis, from abūti, past participle abūsus, misuse: see abuse, v.
 

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