| 单词 | excusable homicide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexcusable homicide 2. Of actions, conduct, etc.: Admitting of excuse or palliation. excusable homicide (see quot. 17691). ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [adjective] > excusable excusablec1374 veniable1646 ignoscible1656 venial1806 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 981 Som manere Ialousye Is excusable more þan som. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 221 And þat her rebellion schuld be more excusabil. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) iii. xxii. 460 Dallying by shifts is never excusable. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 26 With more excusable reservation may we shrink at their bare testimonies. View more context for this quotation 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 121. ⁋4 The only Extravagance of this Kind which appears to me excusable. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiv. 182 Excusable homicide is of two sorts; either per infortunium, by misadventure; or se defendendo, upon a principle of self-preservation. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiv. 183 Homicide in self-defence..is also excusable, rather than justifiable, by the English law. 1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 29 Emily felt a strong yet excusable curiosity. < as lemmas |
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