vindicate

• (58.) The Report of Dr. L.S. Keyser, delegate to the General Council in 1907, which was adopted by the Richmond convention, urged Synod to defend, vindicate, and maintain her doctrinal basis of 1864. —  American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
• A hundred years ago our ancestors spent eight hundred millions to vindicate, as we are vindicating today, the freedom of Europe, in a war which lasted the best part of 20 years, which brings out a rough average of considerably less than a million pounds a week. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
• But I presume my mother had her own rights to vindicate, and beyond that I know nothing of it. —  The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
• But Mr. K. hath here a woman's meeting to vindicate, and therefore it is that he is thus out in his mind. —  Works of John Bunyan — Complete
• To vindicate, therefore, the faith of his former treaties, as well as to maintain those he had lately made, and to protect and defend the trade of his subjects, which had in every branch been violently and unjustly oppressed, it became necessary for his naval forces to check their progress; that notwithstanding the success of his arms, that court had lately given orders at all the ports of Spain and of the West Indies to fit out privateers against the English. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. From William and Mary to George II.

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