excusement
Middle English
editEtymology
editCompare Old French escusement.
Noun
editexcusement
- excuse
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (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
edit- “excusement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.