Meaning of abusion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Misuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse.
   Early, Modern, countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Deceit; abuse of the truth.
   Early, Modern, countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. Catachresis.
   Early, Modern, countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Such tunges unhappy hath made great diviſion In realmes, in cities, by ſuche fals abuſion; Of fals fickil tunges ſuche cloked colluſion”

“[…] by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd, / Foolish delights and fond abusions, / Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.”

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