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Definition of Excusing
1. excuse [v] - See also: excuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excusing
Literary usage of Excusing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"The President put the question on excusing Mr. Crosby for yesterday and to-day,
and he was so excused. Mr. WH Steele — Mr. President, in behalf of Mr. ..."
2. Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans: with remarks on the commentaries of by Robert Haldane (1874)
"Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience aim
bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Comment on the legal doctrine excusing a profert. ... doctrine excusing a profert.
Profert now dispensed with at law. The reason of that decision ..."
4. The deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (1841)
"... gleamings of that pure Spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are
to be seen relieving its deformities and mitigating, if not excusing, ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"We know that churchmen are in the habit of excusing themselves for their past
derelictions by casting all the blame upon the State; but the union of the ..."
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