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excusive, a.|ɛkˈskjuːsɪv|
[f. excuse v. + -ive.]
That tends to excuse; excusing.
1592Nobody & Someb. (1878) 288 Our eares are deafe to all excusive pleas. 1641Arminian Nunnery 4 The Priestlike Prolocutor did not want a premeditated excusive Iustification. 1855T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) ix. 118 Say whatever may be found excusive on behalf of the very bad. 1903Crichton-Browne New Lett. Jane W. Carlyle I. p. lxix, Hurried, excusive scribbles. 1929E. Linklater Poet's Pub iii. 52 Mr. Wesson smiled all round, an excusive, propitiating smile.
Hence † exˈcusively adv.
1641Disc. Prince Henry in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 522 To the first, he gave answers satisfactorily.—To the other, excusively. |