Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Accusation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Accusation.
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- noun obsolete
accusation (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Etymologies
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Examples
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And for as moche as to me there is not come any occasion to be able, to shewe the preparacions made of me, to reduce the servise of warre into his auncient orders, if I have not reduced it, I cannot be of you, nor of other blamed: I beleve this excuse shuld suffise for answere to your accusement.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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And that the same justices shall, upon their examination, punish the offenders according as their offences shall appear, upon the accusement and examination, by their discretion, either by open punishment or "by good abearing." [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary David Hume 1743
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