Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An excuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Excuse.
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- noun obsolete
excuse
Etymologies
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Compare Old French escusement.
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Examples
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"O our lord Alaeddin, blame us not, for that the Sultan hath bidden us carry thee to him, bound and shackled; wherefore we beseech thee of excusement, for that we are under a royal commandment and may not gainsay it."
Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879
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