All 5 Uses of
vindicate
in
The Mill on the Floss
- "Oh, yes," said Maggie, reviving a little in the desire to vindicate the variety of her reading.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- "Ay, ay, Gritty," said the miller, with a new softness in his tone; "but I've allays done what I could for you," he added, as if vindicating himself from a reproach.†
Chpt 1.8
- Maggie was paralyzed; it was easier to resist Stephen's pleading than this picture he had called up of himself suffering while she was vindicated; easier even to turn away from his look of tenderness than from this look of angry misery, that seemed to place her in selfish isolation from him.†
Chpt 6.13vindicated = shown to be right or justified
- Maggie was half stunned,—too heavily pressed upon by her anguish even to discern any difference between her actual guilt and her brother's accusations, still less to vindicate herself.†
Chpt 7.1
- He has vindicated you to the utmost; and I hope the communication of that letter to your cousin will have a beneficial effect on her.†
Chpt 7.2vindicated = shown to be right or justified
Definition:
show to be right or justified