exculpation

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As Sherr suggested on Reliable Sources, Palin's description of the report as a exculpation is, in itself, galling.

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  1. The act of exculpating or of exonerating from a charge of fault or crime; vindication. In Scotland, the law allows of an exculpation, by which the prisoner is suffered before his trial to prove the thing to be impossible. Bp. Burnet, Hist. Own Times, an. 1684.
  2. Letters of exculpation in Scots law, a warrant granted at the suit of the accused citing witnesses in his defense.

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  • But duties of exculpation were now incumbent on me. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies
  • It's a hilariously double-edged nugget of smug self-exculpation, and it also foregrounds the challenge Coogan faces with this tour. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • As Sherr suggested on Reliable Sources, Palin's description of the report as a exculpation is, in itself, galling. —  CJR
  • [152] This exculpation was doubtless given when the unhappy woman was under the influence of that subtle and powerful mind, which lent its aid to its guilty schemes. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
  • About my papers I have a greater grievance, for he has so completely deprived me of them that I have never been able to obtain a single one from him; and those that would have been most useful in my exculpation are precisely those which he has kept most concealed. —  The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
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  1. from Middle Latin exculpatio(n-), from exculpare, past participle *exculpatus, clear from blame: see exculpate.
 

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