accusement

accusement

English

Etymology

From Middle French acusement; later uses reformed from accuse +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkjuːzmənt/

Noun

accusement (plural accusements)

1. (now rare) An accusation. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde, IV.50:

     Than þenk I þis were here accusement.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     He gan t'efforce the evidence anew, / And new accusements to produce in place […].

References

• accusement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913