abusion

English

From Middle English abusioun, from Old French abusion, from Latin abūsiō (“abuse, misuse”), from abūtor (“misuse”).[1]

abusion (countable and uncountable, plural abusions)

(obsolete) Misuse, abuse. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.][2]
(obsolete) Abuse of the truth; deceit, lying. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.][2]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XI:
  […] by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd, / Foolish delights and fond abusions, / Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.
(obsolete) Violation of law or propriety; outrage, improper behaviour. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.][2]
(obsolete) Catachresis. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.][2]
(obsolete) Physical, mental, verbal, or sexual abuse. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17^th century.][2]

Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
“abusion” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

abusion f (oblique plural abusions, nominative singular abusion, nominative plural abusions)

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (abusion)

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