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exculpate
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  • He did not, however, endeavour to exculpate himself; but took a method which almost equally confounded me.†  (source)
  • It is my sincere hope that this book does not come across as self-congratulatory or self-exculpatory.  (source)
    exculpatory = clearing of guilt or blame
  • These police put Walter on death row while he was a pretrial detainee; I feared that they would not scrupulously follow the legal requirement to turn over all exculpatory evidence that could help him prove his innocence.†  (source)
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  • He's investigating something new on the case'possibly something exculpatory.'†  (source)
    exculpatory = clearing of guilt or blame
  • "I fail to see what that has to do with this triar "It may exculpate Mr. Dillard's client," Baker said.†  (source)
  • The long afternoons she spent browsing through dictionary and thesaurus made for constructions that were inept, but hauntingly so: the coins a villain concealed in his pocket were "esoteric," a hoodlum caught stealing a car wept in "shameless auto-exculpation," the heroine on her thoroughbred stallion made a "cursory" journey through the night, the king's furrowed brow was the "hieroglyph" of his displeasure.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.†  (source)
    exculpated = cleared of guilt or blame
  • The quickest way to provoke that state was to permit no contact, no discussion, no exculpating explanations aimed at enlisting the subject to get the offender off the hook.†  (source)
    exculpating = clearing of guilt or blame
  • He would have to make the best of this terrible situation—make the best of this plan that had ended so strangely and somewhat exculpatorily for him.†  (source)
  • Tess's voice throughout had hardly risen higher than its opening tone; there had been no exculpatory phrase of any kind, and she had not wept.†  (source)
  • He took Withers, the trader, into his confidence, and they planned a story, which Withers was to carry to Stonebridge, that would exculpate Fay and Shefford of anything more serious than flight.†  (source)
  • not explaining, asking for no exculpation: just told Grandfather how he had put his first wife aside like eleventh and twelfth century kings did: 'I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.'†  (source)
  • The only exculpatory aspect of my crimes is that I was caught and so many others were not and are not.†  (source)
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