excusaln.
/ɛkˈskjuːzəl/ The action or fact of excusing; an instance of this. Const. of. In later use chiefly of local rates.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > release from duty or obligation
remission?1316
loosingc1357
releasec1390
releasing1395
discharginga1398
defeasance1399
quittancea1400
acquittancec1405
discharge1423
absolution1447
acquittinga1450
quietance1451
excusationc1475
relief1496
acquittal?1538
releasement1548
ease1576
excuse1577
relievement1583
excusal1584
exoneration1640
dispensation1653
absolvement1689
1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris iv. iv. sig. Diiij I must pleade For safe excusall of my giltles thought.
1620 Allured in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 91 Yea, upon the excusal of some, and refusal of others [who were bade to the marriage].
1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 286 The deficiency caused by the excusals on account of poverty.
1888 Whitby Gaz. 5 Oct. 3/3 The committee had met..to go through the list of excusals and irrecoverables.
1898 Daily 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.
1899 Punch 19 Apr. 190/3 When they press him to tax them excusal he begs.
1906 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 507 The excusal of rates being one of the most abused forms of out-door relief.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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