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/ɪgzˈɑnərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Exonerate v. t. (past & past part. exonerated; pres. part. exonerating)

To unload; to disburden; to discharge. (Obs.) "All exonerate themselves into one common duct."

To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.

To discharge from duty or obligation, as a bail.

Synonyms: To absolve; acquit; exculpate. See Absolve.

adjective

exonerated adj. Same as exculpated.

Synonyms: absolved, cleared, exculpated, vindicated.

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Etymology of 'Exonerated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... you hide, as though you were a culprit? You have been so completely exonerated from the imputation of guilt which once hung over you, that you owe it to yourself to front the gaze of the world fearlessly. What ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... fireman were killed. An inquest was held before Dr. Slyman, coroner, one of the most enthusiastic promoters of the Montgomeryshire lines, and the jury solemnly found that "the accident was the result of furious driving," but they exonerated from blame ...

— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine

... mayoralty. A petition had been laid before the Court of Common Council in August, 1382, when Exton himself being present, and seeing the turn affairs were taking, endeavoured to anticipate the judgment of the court, by himself asking to be exonerated from his office, declaring at the same time that he had offered a large sum of money to be released at his election in the first instance. The court wishing for further time to consider the matter adjourned. At its next meeting a similar petition was again presented, ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... colossal joke of the play, they had learned indirectly also the whole truth concerning the past of the two men. They realized that Fergus and Holden had been duped by Jopp into the escapade. Their primitive sense of justice exonerated the humorists and arraigned the one malicious man. As the night wore on they decided on the punishment to be meted out by La Touche to the man who had not ...

— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker

... not think any arrangements of the kind practicable," returned Errington, with a kind smile. "I understand your eagerness to relieve your conscience by an act of restitution, but now you are exonerated. I ask nothing but that you should forgive yourself, and knit up the ravelled web of your life. The fortune ought to be yours—is ...

— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander

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