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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.
s as z. Excuse; apology. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


excusation

excusation

English

Noun

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.