abusion

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English

Etymology

From Middle English abusioun, from Old French abusion, from Latin abūsiō (“abuse, misuse”), from abūtor (“misuse”).[1] Doublet of abusio.

Pronunciation

Noun

abusion (countable and uncountable, plural abusions) (chiefly Early Modern)

  1. (obsolete) Misuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse.
  2. (obsolete) Deceit; abuse of the truth.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      Such tunges unhappy hath made great diviſion
      In realmes, in cities, by ſuche fals abuſion;
      Of fals fickil tunges ſuche cloked colluſion
      Hath brought nobil princes to extreme confuſion.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      […] by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd, / Foolish delights and fond abusions, / Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.
  3. (obsolete, rhetoric) Catachresis.

References

  1. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 8

Old French

Noun

abusion oblique singular, f (oblique plural abusions, nominative singular abusion, nominative plural abusions)

  1. abuse
  2. deception; deceit
  3. lie; untruth

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