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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To clear of guilt or blame.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To clear from a charge or imputation of fault or guilt; vindicate from an accusation of wrong-doing.
  2. Serve to relieve of or free from blame; serve as an excuse for. Synonyms To exonerate, acquit, absolve, pardon, justify.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ex culpa (ex ("from") + culpa ("blame")) + a Latinate ending. (Wiktionary)
  2. Medieval Latin exculpāre, exculpāt- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin culpa, guilt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • kingparton We invent our god to exculpate us when we find it necessary to perform the unpleasant act of killing those who invent their god when they find it necessary to perform the unpleasant task of killing us.

    Stefan Themerson, Tom Harris Dec 29, 2011

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