excusement

Middle English

Etymology

Compare Old French escusement.

Noun

excusement

1. excuse
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     For he is one and they be two
     And two have more wit than one,
     So thilke excusement was none

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “excusement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.