The act of accusing; a formal charge or accusation brought against someone.
From accuse plus the suffix -al (from Latin -alis), which forms nouns expressing action or condition. This developed as a more formal synonym for accusation.
While 'accusation' comes straight from Latin, 'accusal' is a distinctly English creation using the -al suffix—English speakers kept making new words even when they already had perfectly good ones!
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