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EXCUSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Granted exemption
Example:
one of the excused jurors planned to write a book
Classified under:
Similar:
exempt ((of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb excuse
Context examples:
Mr Shepherd, a civil, cautious lawyer, who, whatever might be his hold or his views on Sir Walter, would rather have the disagreeable prompted by anybody else, excused himself from offering the slightest hint, and only begged leave to recommend an implicit reference to the excellent judgement of Lady Russell, from whose known good sense he fully expected to have just such resolute measures advised as he meant to see finally adopted.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth excused herself as well as she could; said that she had liked him better when they had met in Kent than before, and that she had never seen him so pleasant as this morning.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
No: I would rather be excused.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
This was the state of matters, on the afternoon of, what I may be excused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Again Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by himself.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He had carried it off as a good joke with Scott, excused his little wife as well as he could, and played the host so hospitably that his friend enjoyed the impromptu dinner, and promised to come again, but John was angry, though he did not show it, he felt that Meg had deserted him in his hour of need.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She had once partly promised Mrs Smith to spend the evening with her; but in a short hurried call she excused herself and put it off, with the more decided promise of a longer visit on the morrow.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As the horse continued in name, as well as fact, the property of Edmund, Mrs. Norris could tolerate its being for Fanny's use; and had Lady Bertram ever thought about her own objection again, he might have been excused in her eyes for not waiting till Sir Thomas's return in September, for when September came Sir Thomas was still abroad, and without any near prospect of finishing his business.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“If a woman can ever be excused for thinking only of herself, it is in a situation like Jane Fairfax's. Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.'”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
