recusation

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recusation

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Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.

noun recusations

  1. countable, uncountable The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice. […]permit a man to refuse a judge, if he himself is of opinion he has any cause, without assigning what that cause is, is therefore in general very silent about what sort of consanguinity is, or is not, a good ground for recusation
  2. countable, obsolete, uncountable A refusal.

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noun recusal

Españolrecusación
中文迴避 /回避 huíbì
Italianoricusazione

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@misc{recusation_2026,
  title = {recusation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/recusation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}