All 4 Uses of
vindicate
in
The House of Mirth
- Miss Bart made this announcement in the tone of one who presents, with careless assurance, a complete vindication; but Mrs. Fisher received it in a manner almost inconsequent.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- Lily knew that Rosedale had overstated neither the difficulty of her own position nor the completeness of the vindication he offered: once Bertha's match in material resources, her superior gifts would make it easy for her to dominate her adversary.†
Chpt 2.8
- Once again, Lily had withdrawn from an ambiguous situation in time to save her self-respect, but too late for public vindication.†
Chpt 2.10
- Carry did not put her own case so brutally, but she allowed it to be thus put for her by her latest bosom friend, Mrs. Jack Stepney: Mrs. Stepney, trembling over the narrowness of her only brother's escape, but eager to vindicate Mrs. Fisher, at whose house she could count on the "jolly parties" which had become a necessity to her since marriage had emancipated her from the Van Osburgh point of view.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(vindicate) show to be right or justified