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vindicate
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  • ...he looks up at the sky with that expression of dumb and brooding outrage and yet of vindication, as though he had expected no less;  (source)
    vindication = having been proved right
  • A moral vindication was regarded by the youth as a very important thing.  (source)
    vindication = to be shown to be right or justified in taking prior action
  • When Peter stiffens, I am ashamed to say that I feel a little bit vindicated.†  (source)
    vindicated = shown to be right or justified
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  • A prisoner's journal, a vindication of himself?†  (source)
    vindication = to be shown to be right or justified in taking prior action
    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.
  • Although I was sorry for the little boy, I also felt vindicated.†  (source)
    vindicated = shown to be right or justified
  • No, you will vindicate them.†  (source)
  • On page 3 she writes: "I truthfully feel none of us has anyone to blame etc." Thus vindicating those who bore influence in her formative years.†  (source)
  • If but to seize thy arms thou make delay, Again thy fury vindicates her prey; Her six mouths yawn, and six are snatch'd away.†  (source)
  • But vindication has no power over guilt.†  (source)
    vindication = to be shown to be right or justified in taking prior action
  • Grant said, "You must feel vindicated.†  (source)
    vindicated = shown to be right or justified
  • Also, such childish displays do nothing but vindicate those elves who are opposed to you.†  (source)
  • "I am not like him!" he yelled helplessly, vindicating himself to any who would listen.†  (source)
  • (223) As when some huntsman, with a flying spear, From the blind thicket wounds a stately deer; Down his cleft side, while fresh the blood distils, He bounds aloft, and scuds from hills to hills, Till life's warm vapour issuing through the wound, Wild mountain-wolves the fainting beast surround: Just as their jaws his prostrate limbs invade, The lion rushes through the woodland shade, The wolves, though hungry, scour dispersed away; The lordly savage vindicates his prey†  (source)
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