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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024es•soin (i soin′),USA pronunciation n. - Law, World History(in England) an excuse for nonappearance in a court of law at the prescribed time.
- Old Low Franconian *sunnja legal excuse, care (compare Old Saxon sunnea, Old Norse syn denial, Gothic sunja truth)
- Anglo-French, Old French essoigne, essoine, noun, nominal derivative of essoinier to put forward such an excuse, verb, verbal derivative (with es- ex-) of sogne, ultimately
- Middle English essoine 1300–50
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