excusing

noun

excusing

noun

1

The act of making an excuse.

"I was fond of her," he insisted dully. "She suffered a lot on account of me." The words dropped to me through immeasurable cold space. I believe there were more explanations, excusings.1985, Mary Hunter Austin, A Woman of Genius, page 138:

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