exculpation

• “But where is the plea which we can hand down to a candid posterity in exculpation, wholly or partially, of the parricidal act which has robbed the American nation of a father, every American citizen of a friend, factious parties of their most generous judge, a relentless enemy of their best protector, and the whole world of an HONEST MAN?”

  The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln

• “Sir Hugh, with entreaties that he would write a few lines to Mrs. Tyrold, in exculpation of her sorrowing daughter.”

  Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth

• “For what belongs to that correspondence, and even for its being unknown to my friends, I may offer, perhaps, hereafter, something in exculpation; ... hereafter, I say, building upon your long family regard; for though we part ... it will be, I trust, in amity.”

  Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth

• “And while that might, regrettably, remain a statement of fact about an imperfect world - it shouldn't in any way take on the colour of an exculpation, which is what the current law gives it.”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “While the author admits these flaws in varying measure, at some point, her self-deprecating accounts of her romps seem more like gimmicky braggadocio rather than self-reflective criticism much less exculpation for region-wide offenses.”

  The Huffington Post: C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle

• “Prof. HAYES: Once we turned de-Nazification over to the Germans at the end of 1946, then very largely this process became one of mutual exculpation.”

  NPR: Probe Details Culpability Of Nazi-Era Diplomats

• “Aren't you reassured by this (e.g. the EFSA exculpation of BPA)," she sneered.”

  The Huffington Post: Jon Entine: With the European Union and a Slew of New Studies Reaffirming the Safety of BPA, At What Point Will the Science Prevail?

• “But Sir, the following I absolutely disclaim, without endeavouring to offer one word more that might sound like exculpation.”

  Letter 62

• “And there's a piece of pure Redgrave poetry when, learning that her accusation that Hoke has pinched a tin of salmon is totally groundless, she scoops up a trashcan with a fluid balletic movement as if to suggest that her airy insouciance could act as a form of exculpation.”

  The Guardian: Driving Miss Daisy – review

• “  Without fail I would find myself overcome with exculpation, every sin, every stain on my soul, forgiven.”

  Fictionaut: Ambrosia

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