essoin
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
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- 6
Definition of essoin
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(UK, transitive)To excuse for failure to appear in court.
“I'll not essoin thee.”
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verb
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(UK, transitive)To excuse for failure to appear in court.
“I'll not essoin thee.”
noun
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(UK, obsolete)An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.
“[W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.”
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(obsolete)Excuse; exemption.
“From euery worke he chalenged essoyne.”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English essoyne, from Old French essoignier, from Medieval Latin exoniō, essoniō (“excuse oneself; accept an excuse”), from ex- + sonium + -ō, sonium being from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju (“care, need”).
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