What is "excuses"

Usage examples of "excuses".

But the same excuses of fear and ignorance cannot be applied to the Christian emperors who violated the precepts of humanity and of the Gospel.

Then the usual obligatory introductions and sugary compliments and aggravating politenesses, and over an hour of back and forth, of demands calmly deflected, ponderous arguments, delays requested, astonishment where none was merited, questions needing to be repeated, facts dismissed, the truth disregarded--alibis, explanations, rationalizations, excuses, all courteously delivered.

He struggled up, made his excuses and thanked them for their hospitality.

Ujizane had been a fool and had given both the Tokugawa and Takeda clans a number of good excuses to attack him.

One of the excuses mentioned was that the man invited had bought a piece of ground, and had to look at it.

Valentinian had promised: but they were amused with excuses and delays, till at length, after a fruitless expectation, they were compelled to retire.

Barbarians, in arms, as well as in discipline, removed the only pretence which excuses the submission of a populous country to the inferior numbers of a veteran army.

The justice or passion of Narses was awakened: he summoned the offender to his presence, and without listening to his excuses, gave the signal to the minister of death.

Constantinople: they urged, with importunate clamors, the increase of tribute, or the restitution of captives and deserters: and the majesty of the empire was almost equally degraded by a base compliance, or by the false and fearful excuses with which they eluded such insolent demands.

In the treaties of the administration of the empire, the royal author suggests the answers and excuses that might best elude the indiscreet curiosity and importunate demands of the Barbarians.

Nicephorus Gregoras, who, for the light of Mount Thabor, brands the emperor with the names of tyrant and Herod, excuses, rather than blames, this Turkish marriage, and alleges the passion and power of Orchan, eggutatos, kai th dunamo?

Von Hammer excuses the silence with which the Turkish historians pass over the earlier intercourse of the Ottomans with the European continent, of which he enumerates sixteen different occasions, as if they disdained those peaceful incursions by which they gained no conquest, and established no permanent footing on the Byzantine territory.

With the true zeal of an editor and a patriot, he devoutly justifies or excuses the characters of his countrymen.

During the reading, we kissed furtively in the garden, but I made excuses and did not invite him upstairs.

They began making excuses and Cassius could not get them to agree on a proper plan of action.