accusation

• accusacion, accusasiowne (obsolete, 15th century)

First attested in the late 14th century. Inherited from Middle English accusacion, borrowed from Old French acusacion (French: accusation), from Latin accūsātiō (“accusation, indictment”), from accūsō (“blame, accuse”). Doublet of accusatio. More at accuse. Equivalent to accuse +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ˌæk.ju.ˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌæk.jə.ˈzeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

accusation (countable and uncountable, plural accusations)

1. The act of accusing.
   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     We come not by the way of accusation / To taint that honour every good tongue blesses.

2. (law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:37:

     [They] set up over his head his accusation.

3. An allegation.

   ungrounded accusations

   a blind accusation

   repeated accusations

   an accusation of a crime

• “accusation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• accusation in Britannica Dictionary
• accusation in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• accusation in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
• accusation in Ozdic collocation dictionary

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Borrowed from Latin accūsātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.za.sjɔ̃/

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accusation f (plural accusations)

1. accusation

• chef d’accusation

• “accusation” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).

• “accusation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

accusation (plural accusationes)

1. accusation