different between apology vs excusation

English

Alternative forms

• apologie (archaic)

Etymology

From French apologie, from Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apología, “a speech in defence”), from ??????????? (apologoûmai, “I speak in my defense”), from ???????? (apólogos, “an account, story”), from ??? (apó, “from, off”) (see apo-) + ????? (lógos, “speech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?l.?.d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

apology (plural apologies)

1. An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).

2. A formal justification, defence.

   Synonym: apologia

3. Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

   • [He] goes to work devising apologies for window curtains.

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See also

• remorse

Further reading

• apology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• apology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French excusation, from Latin exc?s?ti?, from exc?s? (“I excuse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kskju?ze???n/

Noun

excusation (plural excusations)

1. (obsolete) The act of offering an excuse or apology, or the fact of being excused; an excuse, a defence.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:

     And his goodness is to be admired, that it refuted not his argument in the punishment of his excusation, and only pursued the first transgression without a penalty of this the second.

Related terms

• excuse