accusement
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French acusement; later uses reformed from accuse + -ment.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaccusement (plural accusements)
- (now rare) An accusation. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- He gan t'efforce the evidence anew, / And new accusements to produce in place […].
References
edit- “accusement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
editNoun
editaccusement
- accusation
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde, IV.50:
- Than þenk I þis were here accusement.