英和和英

名詞

excuser (複数形 excusers)

1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret

     In vain would his excusers endeavour to palliate his enormities, by imputing them to madness; because it is well known, that madness only operates by inflaming and enlarging the good or evil dispositions of the mind.

2. One who excuses or forgives another.
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes]; Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

     yet love is a sufficient excuse and excuser of greater errors than are mine

参照

“excuser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• excurse

Latin

動詞

excūser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of excūsō