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Word Meanings - EXCUSELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • EXCUSEMENT
    Excuse. Gower.
  • ADMITTER
    One who admits.
  • APOLOGY
    1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • EXCUSE
    1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • ADMITTANCE
    The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
  • EXCUSER
    1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • ADMITTABLE
    Admissible. Sir T. Browne.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • ADMITTED; ADMITTEDLY
    Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • ADMITTATUR
    The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • HAVOC
    Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • DRAWSHAVE
    See KNIFE
  • MISBEHAVIOR
    Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.

 

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