EXCUSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excused mean? 

• EXCUSED (adjective)
  The adjective EXCUSED has 1 sense:

1. granted exemption

  Familiarity information: EXCUSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCUSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Granted exemption

Context example:

one of the excused jurors planned to write a book

Similar:

exempt ((of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject)

 Context examples 

"And what a scream! If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Young folks in their situation should be excused complying with the common forms.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Strong had declined to play, on the ground of not feeling very well; and her cousin Maldon had excused himself because he had some packing to do.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If she had, I should have felt as if I ought to do it, but Plumfield is about as gay as a churchyard, you know, and I'd rather be excused.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Count again excused himself, as he had dined out on his being away from home.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When I was presented to him, he gave me a close embrace, a compliment I could well have excused.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Considering the very particular friendship between her and Mrs. Dixon, you could hardly have expected her to be excused from accompanying Colonel and Mrs. Campbell.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As Elinor was certain of seeing her in a couple of minutes, without taking that liberty, she begged to be excused.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He excused himself, however, from attending them: “The rays of the sun were not too cheerful for him, and he would meet them by another course.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was arranged as he suggested, though Miss Harrison excused herself from leaving the bedroom, in accordance with Holmes’s suggestion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)