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  • verb Present participle of vindicate.

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Examples

  • Gonzales captured 60 percent of the 1,027 ballots cast in what he described as a vindicating win.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • Gonzales captured 60 percent of the 1,027 ballots cast in what he described as a vindicating win.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • It is not without some mixture of mortification and regret, that I now look back on the number of hours which I have consumed, and the number of pages which I have filled, in vindicating my literary and moral character from the charge of wilful Misrepresentations, gross Errors, and servile Plagiarisms ...

    Gibbon's Vindication doctorwho 2010

  • Pope Adrian I, in vindicating the veneration of images to Charlemagne, mentions this use of balm and defends it (Mansi, Concilia, XIII, 778).

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • But in vindicating her it has been necessary to tell the truth.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • The people were separated into two divisions, and those who were the boldest and most obstinate in vindicating their idolatry were put to death, while the rest, who withdrew in shame or sorrow, were spared.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • If this doesn't indicate the utility of the long pastorates, then I shall give up the idea of vindicating anything by facts.

    Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix James Walker 1914

  • An overwhelming majority opposed the idea of vindicating the Partition Treaty by arms.

    Daniel Defoe Minto, William, 1845-1893 1879

  • An overwhelming majority opposed the idea of vindicating the Partition Treaty by arms.

    Daniel Defoe William Minto 1869

  • What is called vindicating the honour of an individual or a nation, is the most futile, tedious, and uninstructive of all writing; although it will always meet with more applause than that sober criticism, which is attributed to the malicious desire of reducing a great man to the common standard of humanity.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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