ABUSAGE

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 263 words | Copyright

ABUSAGE. An archaic term for misuse and defilement, revived in 1942 by Eric Partridge in the title Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English (1942). It is currently used only in his sense of improper, unidiomatic, and ungrammatical language. Compare CONFUSAGE.

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