accusement

English

Etymology

From Middle French acusement; later uses reformed from accuse +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkjuːzmənt/

Noun

accusement (plural accusements)

1. (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

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

Middle English

Noun

accusement

1. accusation
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde, IV.50:

     Than þenk I þis were here accusement.