usage
/ˈjusɪd͡ʒ/ sustantivo B1En español: uso, usanza, usaje
- A custom or established practice.
- Custom, tradition.
- The act of using something; use, employment.
- Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace. · In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
- Choice of language style (made by a speaker or writer). · usage prescriptions· In prescriptive ideal, writers will optimize their usage.
Plural usages
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We are not on friendly terms, and it always gives me pain to meet him, but I have no reason for avoiding _him_ but what I might proclaim to all the world--a sense of very great ill-usage, and most painful regrets at his being what he is.
She has fainted from ill-usage and exhaustion.”
I could endure it all, ill-usage, solitude, a life of deception, everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love, but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool.” She broke into passionate sobbing as she spoke.
and King Charles X., had preserved a great number of friends, and these, added to the personages whom the usages of society gave Villefort a claim on, formed a considerable body.
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