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Definition of Excusably
1. Adverb. In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree. "He was excusably late"
Partainyms: Excusable, Forgivable, Pardonable
Antonyms: Inexcusably, Unforgivably, Unpardonably
Definition of Excusably
1. Adverb. In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excusably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excusably
Literary usage of Excusably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... could not reasonably or excusably depend upon the undertaking of the earl of
Holland ; who had so grossly deceived him in other undertakings, ..."
2. A Treatise on Appellate Procedure and Trial Practice Incident to Appeals by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1892)
"... except where party is excusably ignorant of the objection, 691. presumptions
concerning, 723. objections to, should be specific, 778. answers of jurors, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"Injury to a passenger while excusably riding on the platform because of the ...
The liability of the carrier to one excusably riding on the platform is not ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1858)
"But what Austria, as we. have said, has done naturally and perhaps excusably,
England has also done neither naturally nor excusably. ..."
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