Vindication
[,vɪndɪ'keɪʃən] or [,vɪndə'keʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.; 'friends provided a vindication of his position'.
Typist: Mabel--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Justification, plea, defence, excuse, apology.[2]. Assertion, maintenance, support.
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Examples
- He had come for vindication. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But assuming the proof to be possible, the vindication of your innocence would be no easy matter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His vindication of a great lady. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But his final defeat of Hood was so complete, that it will be accepted as a vindication of that distinguished officer's judgment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had been preoccupied with his own vindication, and had been blind to what Ladislaw might infer on his own account. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I believe the vindication of your innocence is in my hands! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Because my time, pursues Sir Leicester, is wholly at your disposal with a view to the vindication of the outraged majesty of the law. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But this vindication was in part anticipated, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, by the analysis of meteorites. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She expected a vindication of Rosamond herself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Once again, Lily had withdrawn from an ambiguous situation in time to save her self-respect, but too late for public vindication. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Editor: Priscilla