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Definitions of excuse in various dictionaries:
noun - a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
noun - a note explaining an absence
noun - a poor example
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| To free, as from an obligation or duty exempt: In my state, physicians and lawyers are excused from jury duty. |
| An explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness. |
| To give permission to leave release: The child ate quickly and asked to be excused. |
| To grant pardon to forgive: We quickly excused the latecomer. |
| To make allowance for overlook: Readers must excuse the author's youth and inexperience. See Synonyms at forgive. |
| To serve as justification for: Brilliance does not excuse bad manners. |
| A reason or grounds for excusing: Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law. |
| defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning |
| accept an excuse for |
| ask for permission to be released from an engagement |
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In jurisprudence, an excuse is a defense to criminal charges that is distinct from an exculpation. Justification and excuse are different defenses in a criminal case (See Justification and excuse). Exculpation is a related concept which reduces or extinguishes a person's culpability and therefore a person's liability to pay compensation to the victim of a tort in the civil law. * The "excuse" provides a mitigating factor for a group of persons sharing a common characteristic. Justification, as in justifiable homicide, vindicates or shows the justice. Thus, society approves of the purpose or motives underpinning some actions or the consequences flowing from them (see Robinson), and distinguishes those where the behavior cannot be approved but some excuse may be found in the characteristics of the defendant, e.g. that the accused was a serving police officer or suffering from a mental illness. Thus, a justification describes the quality of the act, whereas an excuse relates to the status o |