excusation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French excusation, from Latin excūsātiō, from excūsō (“I excuse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɛkskjuˈzeɪʃən/
Noun
excusation (plural excusations)
- (obsolete) The act of offering an excuse or apology, or the fact of being excused; an excuse, a defence.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
- And his goodness is to be admired, that it refuted not his argument in the punishment of his excusation, and only pursued the first transgression without a penalty of this the second.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
Related terms
- excuse