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/vɪndəkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Vindication n.

The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete. "Occasion for the vindication of this passage in my book."

(Civil Law) The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing.

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Etymology of 'Vindication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the specimen is itself a full triumph of the Sonnet, from the intellectual truth and beauty and sweetness which are here put into it. So that, what with the argument, and what with the example, the vindication of the Sonnet is perfect. Accordingly, I believe no one has spoken lightly of the thing since that specimen was given ...

— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson

... to put away the ordinary small feelings that actuate so many of her sex; but being still human, she cannot but feel gratified at the vindication that ...

— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne

... their legs, and if you cover these they'll fight forever!" In other words, put them behind entrenchments, and he would pit them against the finest fighters that could be brought against them. The result at Bunker Hill was a vindication ...

— "Old Put" The Patriot • Frederick A. Ober

... conservative element in all nations. Napoleon III restores the Empire in France. In Austria and Prussia, Bismarck and Francis Joseph II retrieve losses of 1848. Disraeli and Conservatives in England. 4. The progress toward universal suffrage after 1865, strengthening political position of lower classes. Vindication of democratic government through triumph of the North in the United States gave impetus to democracy abroad. Electoral reform bills in Great Britain, 1867, 1884, 1885. Franco-Prussian War and the Third French Republic. Universal suffrage. Unification of Germany and universal suffrage. ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... that there did not exist in human life any motive sufficiently strong to warrant the commission of a crime like murder. Probably no great murder had ever been justified by motive, in the sense that incitement is vindication, though human nature, ever on the alert in defence of itself, was prone to accept such excuses as passion and revenge as adequate motives for destruction. The point which perplexed Colwyn in this particular ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

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