All 7 Uses of
acquit
in
Sense and Sensibility
- —I am happy—and he is acquitted.†
Chpt 15
- My feelings are at present in a state of dreadful indecision; I wish to acquit you, but certainty on either side will be ease to what I now suffer.†
Chpt 29
- Cruel, cruel—nothing can acquit you.†
Chpt 29
- Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him.
Chpt 31 *acquitting = finding innocent (informal usage)
- "I have been more pained," said she, "by her endeavors to acquit him than by all the rest; for it irritates her mind more than the most perfect conviction of his unworthiness can do.†
Chpt 31
- I acquit Edward of essential misconduct.†
Chpt 37
- Willoughby, "poor Willoughby," as she now allowed herself to call him, was constantly in her thoughts; she would not but have heard his vindication for the world, and now blamed, now acquitted herself for having judged him so harshly before.
Chpt 45acquitted = found blameless