excusation

Borrowed from Middle French excusation, from Latin excūsātiō, from excūsō (“I excuse”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskjuˈzeɪʃən/

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.

• excuse