Both Uses of
vindicate
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery.†
p. 217.1 *vindication = to be shown to be right or justified in taking prior action
- Elizabeth here felt herself called on to say something in vindication of his behavior to Wickham; and therefore gave them to understand, in as guarded a manner as she could, that by what she had heard from his relations in Kent, his actions were capable of a very different construction; and that his character was by no means so faulty, nor Wickham's so amiable, as they had been considered in Hertfordshire.†
p. 247.4
Definition:
show to be right or justified