excusation

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French excusation, from Latin excūsātiō, from excūsō (“I excuse”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɛkskjuˈzeɪʃən/

Noun

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excusation (plural excusations)

  1. (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.
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