Wednesday, July 30, 2014

abusage

abusage (plural abusages)

  1. (obsolete) Abuse - Whately (1634)
  2. improper or incorrect use of language
    A stickler for the rules of grammar, Mrs. Walker cringes when she encounters any abusage by the students in her freshman English class.
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