Excuse: alternatives and connections

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt…

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To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

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A small paper; a note; a short letter.

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See Defense.

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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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Alt. of Defence

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One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

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The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

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To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.

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Flax; linen.

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To butt; to push with the horns.

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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

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The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vind…

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The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act w…

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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See Color.

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To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

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A pigsty.

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Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or…

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Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

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of Plead

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The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palli…

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The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, th…

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The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act w…

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The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act w…

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The act of condoning or pardoning.

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The act of condoning or pardoning.

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The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

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The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

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Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

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Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act w…

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To make an apology or defense.

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Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as,…

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To pardon; to forgive.

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The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

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Cut off; set apart.

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To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

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To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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