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excusal|ɛkˈskjuːzəl|
[f. excuse v. + -al1.]
The action or fact of excusing; an instance of this. Const. of. In later use chiefly of local rates.
1584Peele Arraignm. Paris iv. iv, I must plead For safe excusal of my guiltless thought. 1620Allured in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 91 Yea, upon the excusal of some, and refusal of others [who were bade to the marriage]. 1864R. A. Arnold Cotton Fam. 286 The deficiency caused by the excusals on account of poverty. 1888Whitby Gaz. 5 Oct. 3/3 The committee had met..to go through the list of excusals and irrecoverables. 1898Daily News 4 Jan. 2/2 The justices had been in the habit of signing excusal lists at the rate collector's office and elsewhere, but not in petty sessions, as the law required. 1899Punch 19 Apr. 190/3 When they press him to tax them excusal he begs. 1906Edin. Rev. Apr. 507 The excusal of rates being one of the most abused forms of out-door relief. |