Read full poem →right themselves ty abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when along train of abuses and usurpa-
tions, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design
Dictionary Entry
Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
In a Sentence
“All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. abusesabuses rightsabuses many
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Poetry examples for “abuses”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Herein Diggon Davie is devised to be a shepheard that, in hope of more
gain, drove his sheep into a far country. The abuses whereof, and loose
living of Popish prelates, by occasion of Hobbinol's demand, he
Read full poem →No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;