Excuse vs. Reason

Excuseverb

(transitive) To forgive; to pardon.

Excuseverb

(transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.

Excuseverb

(transitive) To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.

Excuseverb

To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

Excusenoun

Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.

Excusenoun

(legal) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.

Excusenoun

, poor or lame}} An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.

Excuseverb

To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.

Excuseverb

To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.

Excuseverb

To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

Excuseverb

To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.

Excuseverb

To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

Excusenoun

The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

Excusenoun

That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.

Excusenoun

That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.

Excusenoun

a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.;

Excusenoun

a note explaining an absence;

Excusenoun

a poor example;

Excuseverb

accept an excuse for;

Excuseverb

grant exemption or release to;

Excuseverb

serve as a reason or cause or justification of;

Excuseverb

defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning;

Excuseverb

ask for permission to be released from an engagement

Excuseverb

excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with;

Excuse

In jurisprudence, an excuse is a defense to criminal charges that is distinct from an exculpation. Justification and excuse are different defenses in a criminal case (See Justification and excuse).

Reasonnoun

A cause:

Reasonnoun

That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

Reasonnoun

A motive for an action or a determination.

Reasonnoun

An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.

Reasonnoun

(uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

Reasonnoun

(obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

Reasonnoun

Ratio; proportion.

Reasonverb

(intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational

Reasonverb

(intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.

Reasonverb

(intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.

Reasonverb

(transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

Reasonverb

To support with reasons, as a request.

Reasonverb

(transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.

Reasonverb

To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

Reasonverb

To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

Reasonnoun

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.

Reasonnoun

The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.

Reasonnoun

Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.

Reasonnoun

Ratio; proportion.

Reasonverb

To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

Reasonverb

Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.

Reasonverb

To converse; to compare opinions.

Reasonverb

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.

Reasonverb

To support with reasons, as a request.

Reasonverb

To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.

Reasonverb

To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; - with down; as, to reason down a passion.

Reasonverb

To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; - usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.

Reasonnoun

a rational motive for a belief or action;

Reasonnoun

an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon;

Reasonnoun

the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;

Reasonnoun

the state of having good sense and sound judgment;

Reasonnoun

a justification for something existing or happening;

Reasonnoun

a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion;

Reasonverb

decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion;

Reasonverb

present reasons and arguments

Reasonverb

think logically;

Reason

Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic to seek truth and draw conclusions from new or existing information. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art, and is normally considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed by humans.