Results for usage

Definitions of usage:

part of speech: noun

Treatment; a series of actions performed by one person to another which affects him for good or evil; custom; practice.

part of speech: noun

The act or mode of using; treatment; settled habit; habitual employment by people at large.

Usage examples for usage:

• Where the Prayer- book was silent, uncertainty and variation of usage were more reasonable. "The English Church in the Eighteenth Century", Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

• On the instant there awoke within her a passionate longing for a love which could thus triumph over all disgrace, all ill usage and bear one exultantly to its heaven! "'O Thou, My Austria!'", Ossip Schubin

• Better that than live with such usage "The Marquis of Lossie", George MacDonald

• Established usage founded upon the practice of the government, often repeated, has sanctioned these rules, until it may now be said that they are not open to controversy, but the question in the cases before the court is whether the congress may declare such notes to be lawful money, make them a legal tender, and impart to such a currency the quality of being a standard of value, and compel creditors to accept the payment of their debts in such a currency as the equivalent of the money recognized and established by the constitution as the standard of value by which the value of all other commodities is to be measured. "Monopolies and the People", D. C. Cloud