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Webster 1913 Edition


Accusement

Ac-cuse′ment

(-kūz′ment)
,
Noun.
[OF.
acusement
. See
Accuse
.]
Accusation.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


accusement

accusement

English

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, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
      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