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Exculpated

adjective

Freed from any question of guilt. Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exonerated, vindicated. "Was now clear of the charge of cowardice" , "His official honor is vindicated"

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"Exculpated" Quotes from Famous Books

... liner, might he not lend a ready ear to a scheme for plucking a fat and willing pigeon? So great was my faith in Aunt Jane's gullibility, so dark my distrust of Miss Browne, that all connected with the enterprise lay under the cloud of my suspicion. The Honorable Mr. Vane I had already so far exculpated as to wonder if he were not in some way being victimized too; but Mr. Shaw, after even a casual glimpse of him, one couldn't picture as a victim. I felt that he must have gone into the enterprise with his eyes open to ...

— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon

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... represented as a just retribution required to expiate the sin of Jewish resistance. Titus especially is singled out for his unfailing deeds of bravery; and when anything is amiss with the proceedings of the Romans, the Imperial family is always exculpated. Characteristic is the palliation of Vespasian's brutal treatment of the people of Tarichea. When they surrendered, they were promised their lives, but twelve hundred old men were butchered, and over ...

— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

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Words linked to "Exculpated" : guiltless, absolved, innocent, clean-handed, cleared, clear