excuser

From excuse + -er.

excuser (plural 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], 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 and W. Barret, →OCLC:

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

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

• excurse

Inherited from Middle French excuser, from Old French escuser, borrowed from Latin excūsāre.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sky.ze/

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• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɛs.ky.ze/

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excuser

1. (transitive) to excuse (to forgive, to pardon)

   Near-synonym: pardonner

   excusez du peu ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• excuse

• mettre hors de cause

• “excuser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

excūser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of excūsō

From Old French escuser, borrowed from Latin excūsō, excūsāre.

excuser

1. to excuse; to pardon

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.