excusement

Middle English

Etymology

Compare Old French escusement.

Noun

excusement

excuse
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
  For he is one and they be two
  And two have more wit than one,
  So thilke excusement was none
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

References

excusement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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