All 3 Uses of
vindicate
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- When a lady, in a delicate and costly summer garb, with a floating veil and gracefully swaying gown, and, altogether, an ethereal lightness that made you look at her beautifully slippered feet, to see whether she trod on the dust or floated in the air,—when such a vision happened to pass through this retired street, leaving it tenderly and delusively fragrant with her passage, as if a bouquet of tea-roses had been borne along,—then again, it is to be feared, old Hepzibah's scowl could no longer vindicate itself entirely on the plea of near-sightedness.†
Chpt 3
- No lower estimate could have vindicated the indefatigable zeal with which she scratched, and her unscrupulousness in digging up the choicest flower or vegetable, for the sake of the fat earthworm at its root.†
Chpt 10 *vindicated = shown to be right or justified
- It was now far too late in Clifford's life for the good opinion of society to be worth the trouble and anguish of a formal vindication.†
Chpt 21vindication = to be shown to be right or justified in taking prior action
Definition:
show to be right or justified