exculpations

He didn't start his speech with some list of his own exculpations or counter accusations against his electoral rivals.

Barack Obama, American Fundamentalist 2008

'Know, first,' cried the Doctor, 'if to your guidance she will give way; know if the affair with Sir Sedley has exculpations which render it single and adventitious, or if there hang upon it a lightness of character that may invest caprice, chance, or fickleness, with powers of involving such another entanglement.'

Camilla 2008

I don't want any bribes, or exculpations, or statements from you that you know me to be innocent.

The White Desert Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

Brontës 'heroes or the elaborate exculpations of George Eliot's.

The Victorian Age in Literature 1905

Although Mrs. Vrain and Ferruci had exculpated themselves entirely, Denzil thought that Link, with his professional distrust and trained sense of ferreting out secrets, might discern better than himself whether such exculpations were warranted by circumstances.

The Silent House Fergus Hume 1895

The very elaborateness and vehemence of the exculpations put forth by American writers indicate

Benjamin Franklin 1888

But such exculpations amount to saying that he was an essentially weak man, the slave of his surroundings.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

He addressed these exculpations to March's grave face, and to the pitying deprecation in the eyes of Conrad Dryfoos, whom Lindau's roaring wrath had summoned to the door.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

He addressed these exculpations to March's grave face, and to the pitying deprecation in the eyes of Conrad Dryfoos, whom Lindau's roaring wrath had summoned to the door.

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878

He addressed these exculpations to March's grave face, and to the pitying deprecation in the eyes of Conrad Dryfoos, whom Lindau's roaring wrath had summoned to the door.

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878