abusion

English

Etymology

• From Middle English abusioun, from Old French abusion, from Latin abūsiō (“abuse, misuse”), from abūtor (“misuse”).
• See abuse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbjuː.ʒn̩/
• IPA^(key): /əˈbju.ʒn̩/
• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

abusion (countable and uncountable, plural abusions)

1. (obsolete) Misuse, abuse. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.]
2. (obsolete) Abuse of the truth; deceit, lying. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd, / Foolish delights and fond abusions, / Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.

3. (obsolete) Violation of law or propriety; outrage, improper behaviour. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.]
4. (obsolete) Catachresis. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.]
5. (obsolete) Physical, mental, verbal, or sexual abuse. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.]

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Old French

Noun

abusion oblique singular, f (oblique plural abusions, nominative singular abusion, nominative plural abusions)

1. abuse
2. deception; deceit
3. lie; untruth
   • circa 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la desputizons dou croisie et dou descroisie.:

     Tu dis si grant abusion
     Que nus ne la porroit descrire[.]

     You say such lies
     That no-one could describe them

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (abusion)