abusion

English

Etymology

From Middle English abusioun, from Old French abusion, from Latin abūsiō (“abuse, misuse”), from abūtor (“misuse”).[1] Doublet of abusio.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbjuː.ʒn̩/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbju.ʒn̩/
  • Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

abusion (countable and uncountable, plural abusions)

  1. (obsolete) Misuse, abuse. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.][2]
  2. (obsolete) Abuse of the truth; deceit, lying. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.][2]
    • 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 960102938:
      […] by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd, / Foolish delights and fond abusions, / Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.
  3. (obsolete) Violation of law or propriety; outrage, improper behaviour. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.][2]
  4. (obsolete) Catachresis. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.][2]
  5. (obsolete) Physical, mental, verbal, or sexual abuse. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.][2]

References
  1. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
  2. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abusion”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

Old French

Noun

abusion f (oblique plural abusions, nominative singular abusion, nominative plural abusions)

  1. abuse
  2. deception; deceit
  3. lie; untruth

References
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