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Webster 1913 Edition
Excusation
Exˊcu-sa′tion
,Noun.
[L.
excusatio
: cf. F. excusation
.] Excuse; apology.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Excusation
EXCUSA'TION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
excusation
excusation
English
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: