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excuser

excuser noun: one who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

Noun

excuser (plural excusers)

  1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
    • 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.1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret
  2. One who excuses or forgives another.
    • yet love is a sufficient excuse and excuser of greater errors than are mine1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of excuser

pluralexcusers

Origin of excuser

From excuse + -er.

Questions about excuser

What does excuser mean?
Excuser means one who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
What part of speech is excuser?
Excuser is a noun.
What is the plural of excuser?
The plural of excuser is excusers.

Words near excuser in the dictionary

  1. excuseflation
  2. excuseful
  3. excuseless
  4. excuselessness
  5. excusements
  6. excuser
  7. excusers
  8. excuses
  9. excuses my French
  10. excusest
  11. excuseth

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