different between refusal vs recusation

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?fyo?oz??l, IPA^(key): /???fju?zl?/
• Rhymes: -u?z?l

Noun

refusal (countable and uncountable, plural refusals)

1. The act of refusing.
2. (civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.

Synonyms

• (act of refusing): repudiation, abnegation, declination

Derived terms

• right of first refusal

Related terms

• refuse

Translations

Anagrams

• Laufers, earfuls, earsful, ferulas, fur seal, salufer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.

Noun

recusation (countable and uncountable, plural recusations)

1. (obsolete) refusal
2. (law) The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.
   • 1750, William Blackstone, An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity

     […] permit a man to refuse a judge, if he himself is of opinion he has any cause, without assigning what that cause is, is therefore in general very silent about what sort of consanguinity is, or is not, a good ground for recusation

Related terms

• recuse

Translations

Anagrams

• Carnoustie, cautioners, nectarious, noctuaries, reauctions