vindication

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  1. noun The act of vindicating or condition of being vindicated.
  2. noun The defense, such as evidence or argument, that serves to justify a claim or deed.

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  • Had this melancholy history been allowed to sleep, no public use would have been made of them; but the appearance of a popular attack on the character of Lady Byron calls for a vindication, and the true story of her married life will therefore now be related. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
  • He still nursed wounds of defeat; he could brood over past insults; he longed for vindication, and for gratitude for so much that he had done and the sacrifices he had made. —  John Adams by David McCullough
  • The next morning all the Ladies of Honour appeared early at Court for their vindication, so that nobody could tell whose this mischance should be. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1662/63
  • And somewhere an old crone smiled in vindication, a hundred gold coins draped around her withered neck. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Major Pond, the astute, construed this into a vindication--Beecher was not guilty The first lecture after the trial was given at Alexandria Bay. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
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  1. from Latin vindicatio(n-), a claiming, a defense. from vindicare, claim: see vindicate.
 

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