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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbjuː.ʒn̩/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈbju.ʒn̩/
• 韻: -uːʒən

名詞

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

1. (obsolete) Misuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse. [14th–18th c.]
2. (obsolete) Deceit; abuse of the truth. [15th–17th c.]
   • 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. [16th–18th c.]

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