excuse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English excusen (verb) and excuse (noun), borrowed from Old French escuser (verb) and excuse (noun), from Latin excūsō, excūsāre (“to excuse, allege in excuse, literally, free from a charge”), from ex (“out”) + causa (“a charge”); see cause, accuse and recuse. Displaced native Old English lād (“an excuse”) and lādian (“to excuse”).
Inflected forms:
form: excuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: excusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: excused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: excused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: excuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To forgive; to pardon; to overlook.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I excused him his transgressions.
Yet his Nature / In that’s no Changeling, and I muſt excuſe / What cannot be amended.
If they say that he did sin in doing this, then they must at the same time acknowledge that a man's persuasion that a thing is a duty will not excuse him from guilt in practising it
gloss: To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: May I be excused from the table?
I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard.
gloss: To provide an excuse for; to justify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You know he shouldn't have done it, so don't try to excuse his behavior!
They cannot be excusyd
By reason nor by law; […]
gloss: To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
pos: verb
examples: Agayne / thynke ye that we excuſe oure ſelves? we ſpeake in Chriſt in the ſight of God. But we do all thyngꝭ dearly beloved for youre edifyinge.
It were more meet that thou didst accuse thy self, and excusedst thy Brother.
gloss: An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses!
I had to make an excuse for being late to the meeting.
a feeble excuse
a tired excuse
a valid excuse
And they all atonce begane to make excuſe. The fyrſt ſayd vnto him: I have bought a ferme / and I muſt nedes goo and ſe it / I praye the have me excuſed.
You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
You can say it's just the way you are
Make a new excuse, another stupid reason
gloss: A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
uncountable
examples: That thing is a poor excuse for a gingerbread man. Hasn't anyone taught you how to bake?
He's a sorry excuse for a doctor.
What a fucking lame excuse for a man.
Seydlitz correctly identifies the larger shell splashes as coming from the two "large light cruisers" at the rear, and takes aim. Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
Antonyms: blame
punish
Related words: rationalization
Derived words: blind excuse
excusability
excuse me
excuse my français
excuse my French
excuse you
excusingly
please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
'scuse
unexcused
unexcusing
XQs
abuse excuse
excusal
excuseflation
excuseless
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