accusement

English

Etymology

From Middle French acusement; later uses reformed from accuse +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkjuːzmənt/

Noun

accusement (plural accusements)

(now rare) An accusation. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  He gan t'efforce the evidence anew, / And new accusements to produce in place […].

References

“accusement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

accusement

accusation
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde, IV.50:
  Than þenk I þis were here accusement.

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