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Exculpation

noun
1.
A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc..  Synonyms: alibi, excuse, self-justification.  "Every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job" , "His transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
2.
The act of freeing from guilt or blame.





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"Exculpation" Quotes from Famous Books



... confess nothing about me. I am the Abbe Carlos Herrera. Not only will this be your exculpation; but, if you do not lose your head, you will have seven ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... you t'ief—you lie!" shouted Betty, who had impatiently listened to his exculpation. "Would ye slanderize a lone woman, by saying she walks a camp at midnight? Here have I been slaping the long night, swaatly ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... me to attempt the exculpation of this unhappy man," said Lord Dalgarno, "considering the height of his present attempt, which has made all true men's blood curdle in their veins. Yet I cannot avoid intimating, with all due submission ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott
... officers flushed, and Philemon began a faltering explanation and self-exculpation, but he was cut short by his superior saying sharply: "Tush, sir, such language will not make us deal the more gently with your cribs; so if you 'd save ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... of M. Gauthier, the advocate of Coster St. Victor, the President inquired of the accused whether he had anything further to say in his defence, to which he replied, "I have only to add that the witnesses necessary to my exculpation have not yet appeared. I must besides express my surprise at the means which have been employed to lead astray public opinion, and to load with infamy not only the accused but also their intrepid defenders. I have read with pain in the journals of to-day that the proceedings—" Here ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton


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