excusations

These authorities he deployed at tedious length and followed them up with heavy scurrilities and "excusations," by way of attack and defense.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

These authorities he deployed at tedious length, and followed them up with heavy scurrilities and "excusations," by way of attack and defense.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

Prefaces and passages, and excusations, and other speeches of reference to the person, are great wastes of time; and though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery.

The Essays 2007

For excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

The Essays 2007

Prefaces and passages, 4 and excusations, and other speeches of reference to the person, are great wastes of time; and though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery.

XXV. Of Dispatch 1909

For excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

LIV. Of Vain-glory 1909

And against these three accusations we say on the Good Friday three excusations in the person of Jesu Christ when we sing: Popule meus, where

The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

'Oh! madam,' Lucy said, 'there is no need of excusations.

Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Emma Marshall 1864