interaccusation

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English

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Etymology

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From inter- +‎ accusation.

Noun

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interaccusation (countable and uncountable, plural interaccusations)

  1. The act of accusing each other.
    • 1894, Ethan Allen, Washington: Or, The Revolution, page 40:
      Straightway they fell to excuses and interaccusation. This was misquoted; that a falsehood; and the other thing a forgery.
    • 2013, Bruce Fink, Against Understanding, Volume 1, page 80:
      We try to avoid the pitfalls of each, “navigating between the Charybdis and the Scylla of this interaccusation of speech,” where each accuses the other of lying or error […]
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