Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of vindicating or condition of being vindicated.
- n. The defense, such as evidence or argument, that serves to justify a claim or deed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated. A justification against denial or censure, or against objections or accusations.
- n. The act of supporting by proof or legal process; the proving of anything to be true or just: as, the vindication of a title, claim, or right.
- n. Defense from wrong or oppression, by force or otherwise; maintenance of a cause against an assailant or enemy: as, the vindication of the rights of man; the vindication of liberties.
Wiktionary
- n. the act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated
- n. evidence, facts, statements or arguments that justify a claim or belief
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure.
- n. (Civil Law) The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.
- n. the justification for some act or belief
Examples
“Israel is celebrating what it calls a vindication.”
“A minute he ran the pages, found the passage he was after, nodded his head to himself in vindication, and replaced the book.”
“How fortunate that his vindication is now so public and is saluted.”
General Shinseki: Act II, Scene 1 - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Best I can tell, that is because he is clearly more interested in vindication of his holy anger than actually doing things. rapier says:”
“This strange form of posthumous vindication is the unconscious tribute we lay on the graves of those who died for the Confederacy.”
The Washington Post: Mike Musick: What if Lincoln lost the election?
“Earning a bonus every six months is an awful short-term vindication of worth," says Kenneth Feinberg, the U.S. pay czar.”
“It's so easy to criticize someone elses culture when there is no chance of vindication from the other party.”
Matt Reeves Explains Why He’s Remaking Let The Right One In | /Film
“Perhaps he was waiting/hoping for vindication from the closest thing to a gold standard in academic review — a report on the issue from the National Research Council.”
“While the White House is feeling good that this is a short - term vindication of the president's diplomatic strategy, they're fully aware that over the long term, they are going to have to show that the six-party talks actually yield some results.”
“And so while this may be a short-term vindication of the president's diplomatic strategy, in the long term he still has to show there's going to be some progress from these talks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vindication’.
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
iconoclast, glacial, agnostic, histrionic, treacly, contemptuous, captious, bombastic, bombast, perfidy, quiescence, sordid and 148 more...
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Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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wasserperson's Words
kakistocracy, telebomb, adroit, pensive, verbatim, asinine, anarchic, didactic, subsequent, mirthful, gregarious, sybarite and 102 more...
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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kevincooper's Words
prosopopeia, lisle, magisterial, zeitgeist, zeugma, bloviate, apocryphal, bon mot, cacophony, euphony, brigandier, micturition and 313 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, V
vespertine, vacuous, versipellous, valve, vatic, virogene, vigneron, vincular, verticil, vespiary, vermiculite, velamen and 128 more...
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April 2012
atavism, vindication, panoply, dovetail, misandry, jingoism, louche, sidereal, presage, philanderer, sinecure, patois and 11 more...
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Eloquence
thwart, emulate, shun, bold, brazen, disgruntled, aberration, conclusively, destitute, indefensible, astute, discernment and 52 more...
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Vocabulary
trove, princeling, vindication, relinquish, offing, crux, broach, tenet
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