Acquittal
[ə'kwɪtəl] or [ə'kwɪtl]
Definition
(n.) The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
(n.) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Discharge, release, deliverance, liberation, exoneration, clearance, absolution, acquittance.
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Examples
- Yes; but not only that, said Wemmick, she went into his service immediately after her acquittal, tamed as she is now. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She is innocent, my Elizabeth, said I, and that shall be proved; fear nothing, but let your spirits be cheered by the assurance of her acquittal. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- After the acquittal she disappeared, and thus he lost the child and the child's mother. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Be firm in that I entreat you, I replied, for there can be no rest here nor hereafter without the acquittal of our hearts. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Too much indebted to the event for his acquittal. Jane Austen. Emma.
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