accusement

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UK/əˈkjuːzmənt/

noun

An accusation.

OriginEnglish accuse ← Middle English acusen ← Old French acuser →
First used 14th c.Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nounaccusement (plural accusements)

plural accusements

  1. archaicAn accusation.First known use 14th c.

    He gan t'efforce the evidence anew, / And new accusements to produce in place […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchacusement
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  3. Proto-Italic*ad
  4. Proto-Italic*ad-
  5. Latinad-
  6. Proto-Italic*kaussā
  7. Old Latincaussa
  8. Latincausa
  9. Latinaccūsāre
  10. Old Frenchacuser
  11. Middle Englishacusen
  12. Englishaccuse
  13. Englishaccusement

From Middle French acusement; later uses reformed from accuse + -ment.

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APA

accusement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accusement

MLA

“accusement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accusement. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “accusement,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accusement.

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