All 4 Uses of
acquit
in
Northanger Abbey
- Now, my sweet Catherine, all our distresses are over; you are honourably acquitted, and we shall have a most delightful party.†
Chpt 13
- You do acquit me, then, of anything wrong?†
Chpt 18 *
- You will soon hear enough from another quarter to know where lies the blame; and I hope will acquit your brother of everything but the folly of too easily thinking his affection returned.†
Chpt 25
- Dear, dear Catherine, in being the bearer of such a message, I seem guilty myself of all its insult; yet, I trust you will acquit me, for you must have been long enough in this house to see that I am but a nominal mistress of it, that my real power is nothing.†
Chpt 28