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Vindicated

adjective

Freed from any question of guilt. Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated. "Was now clear of the charge of cowardice" , "His official honor is vindicated"

Vindicate

verb

(past & past part. vindicated; pres. part. vindicating)

Show to be right by providing justification or proof. Synonym: justify.

Maintain, uphold, or defend.

Clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof.

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... eating and food they were criticised for paying too much attention to their table. This was considered a superfluous and indeed wicked luxury when frugality was a virtue. These men who knew by intuition the importance of knowing something about nutrition are only now being vindicated by the ...

— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius

... confessed ruler of the waves and the precise spot of the globe vindicated, as we have seen, by two great poets from the reign of Dulness. Venus is here understood in her noblest character, as the Alma Venus of Lucretius's invocation, as the Power of Love and the Beautiful in the Universe. The Goddess of Wisdom speaks for herself. Against ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various

... "It is good, my lord. Tell us in simple words. Describe the Jarados just as you have seen him, just as you would have us see him. Afterwards we shall open the Leaf." And in a lower tone: "If you speak accurately I shall be vindicated, my lord. I doubt not that you are a better man than the prince; but place your reliance in the Truth; it will be one more proof of the occult, and of ...

— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint

... after a prolonged and withering glare, plucked a hairpin from her head and ostentatiously proceeded to skewer together the starchy white curtains that framed the window. Privacy secured and the sanctity of the English home thus pointedly vindicated, she and her husband disappeared into the murky background, where they doubtless sat down to an excellent high tea. Exhausted and discomfited, we ...

— Scally - The Story of a Perfect Gentleman • Ian Hay

... to be determined not by the nature of the work which he undertakes, but by the kind of mastery which he shows; not by the breadth of surface over which he toils, but by the perfectness of the result which he attains. Mr. Wordsworth has vindicated the capacity of the sonnet to be a casket of the richest gems of fame. We have no doubt that the song may give evidence of a genius which shall deserve to be ranked with the constructor of an epic. "Scorn not the SONG." We would go so far, indeed, as to say that success in the song ...

— Poems • George P. Morris

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