interaccusation
English edit
Etymology edit
inter- + accusation
Noun edit
interaccusation (countable and uncountable, plural interaccusations)
- The act of accusing each other.
- 1894, Ethan Allen, Washington: Or, The Revolution, page 40:
- Straightway they fell to excuses and interaccusation. This was misquoted; that a falsehood; and the other thing a forgery.
- 2013, Bruce Fink, Against Understanding, Volume 1, page 80:
- We try to avoid the pitfalls of each, “navigating between the Charybdis and the Scylla of this interaccusation of speech,” where each accuses the other of lying or error […]