Word Finder - vindicated

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To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

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to vindicate someone's honor

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To justify by providing evidence.

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to vindicate a right, claim or title

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To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.

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to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries

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To provide justification for.

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The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.

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To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

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To liberate; to set free; to deliver.

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To avenge; to punish

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a war to vindicate infidelity

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Justified, avenged or cleared of blame

You've vindicated your honor.

My fear of losing control was totally vindicated by going to hospital.

The sentence passed by the Lords vindicated the right of parliament to punish officials who had enjoyed the favor of the crown, which had fallen into disuse since the accession of the house of York.

While feeling vindicated that Kris might already be dead, he couldn.t help the growing guilt at hurting so many other Immortals.

They possessed in Cyprus a kingdom, in which they had vindicated for themselves a stronger hold over their feudatories than the kings of Jerusalem had ever enjoyed, and in which trading centres like Famagusta flourished vigorously.

In 1127, in the character of an English baron, he swore fealty to Matilda as heiress to her father Henry I., and when the usurper Stephen ousted her in 1135 David vindicated her cause in arms and invaded England.

But he is best vindicated from the charges of selfishness and cowardice by the thoughts and meditations contained in his private diaries and papers, where the purity and honour of his motives are clearly seen.

She felt vindicated by the color that stained his dark cheeks.

Against Manichaean dualism he had vindicated free will; but as against Pelagianism he taught the bondage of sinful man - a position accepted in the East but never welcome there, and not more than half welcome even in the West.

The trophy was set up in the Philistine temple of Ashdod, but vindicated its superiority by overthrowing the god Dagon.

Lanore, and the authority of the tapestry was vindicated.

He was welcomed, not as a successful combatant in a civil war, but as the man who had vindicated the sovereignty of Rome against its assailants, as the saviour of the republic and of his fellow-citizens, above all as the restorer of peace.

His efforts were devoted to reaching a modus vivendi, by which the authority of Rome and her mosLvital claims might be peacefully vindicated.

The freethinking school of the Mo'tazilites insisted that the righteousness of God in rewarding or punishing men for their actions could be vindicated only by the recognition of human freedom.

However little the conduct of the French government in this transaction of the Spanish marriages can be vindicated, it is certain that it originated in the belief that in Palmerston France had a restless and subtle enemy.

It likewise vindicated afresh the rights of the Christian laity in regard to their own beliefs and the work of the Church, against the assumptions and despotism of an arrogant clergy.

Once more doom is threatened, and once more we pass over into a later stage where Yahweh has vindicated his supremacy and Zion is glorified.

With equal firmness and success he vindicated his rights, whether against the indirect attacks of the papacy on his independence, or the claims of the ecclesiastical courts which, in principle, he made subordinate to the jurisdiction of the crown; whether in episcopal elections, or in ecclesiastical reforms which might possibly imperil his power or his revenues.

She tossed the broom aside and felt vindicated when it bounced off the wall.

During the stress of war, Zaleucus violated this law; and, on its being pointed out to him, he committed suicide by throwing himself upon the point of his sword, declaring that the law must be vindicated.

Prophecy believes that this world is God's world and that in this world His goodness and truth will yet be vindicated.

By this means he explained immortality and vindicated personality.

The cause of the young Henry was fully vindicated by the close of the year 1217.

And by his own labours he had vindicated his faith in the experiment of self-government.

He vindicated his estimate of the Apostolical Constitutions and the Arian views he had derived from them in his Primitive Christianity Revived (5 vols., 1711-1712).

Julio Cesar Machado and Fialho de Almeida made their mark by many humorous publications, and, in the domain of pure literary criticism, mention must be made of Antonio Pedro Lopes de Mendonga, Rebello da Silva, Dr Joaquim de Vasconcellos, Mme Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Silva Pinto, the favourite disciple of Castello Branco, and of Luciano Cordeiro, founder of the Lisbon Geographical Society, whose able monograph, Soror Marianna, vindicated the authenticity of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun and showed Marianna Alcoforado to be their authoress.

But opinion on the whole has vindicated its wisdom, and it has survived all the attacks which have been made upon it.

In 1907 Prince Billow was made the subject of a disgraceful libel, which received more attention than it deserved because it coincided with the Harden-Moltke scandals; his character was, however,completely vindicated,and the libeller, a journalist named Brand, received a term of imprisonment.

An inquiry was demanded by Waugh, and the commission of inquiry, which included Lord Herschell and others, completely vindicated the society and its director.

The cost seemed great, but the work was done and the law vindicated.

In the centre were the Basques, dwelling on both sides of the Pyrenees, who kept against the Mahommedan the independence they had vindicated against the Visigoth.

He had every right to feel vindicated after losing his own potential mate and son so long ago.

His cautionary approach was powerfully vindicated by the scandal of the 1976 ' swine flu ' epidemic in the USA 3.

Susannah Wells, who was also vindicated, was less fortunate as she had already been branded by the public hangman.

I believe that the vision behind it has been vindicated triumphantly and the commissions have inspired some excellent additions to the choral repertory.

Immediately after the election, the Republican campaign team, led by Karl Rove, emerged resplendent, their methods vindicated.

Catalans already working with French varietals felt vindicated by the praise the Torres wines were attracting.

The possibility of whatever enters into the wildest imagination to conceive is thus triumphantly vindicated.

So we felt thoroughly vindicated in resisting the rush to induce.

I feel fully vindicated by the decision of the court to strike out the claim.

Published as they were during the years when the modern school of German materialism was at its height,' these works of Lotze were counted among the opposition literature which destroyed the phantom of Hegelian wisdom and vindicated the independent and self-sufficing position of empirical philosophy.

It was at the opening of parliament that Shaftesbury made his celebrated "delenda est Carthago" speech against Holland, in which he urged the Second Dutch War, on the ground of the necessity of destroying so formidable a commercial rival to England, excused the Stop of the Exchequer which he had opposed, and vindicated the Declaration of Indulgence.

They possessed in Cyprus a kingdom, in which they had vindicated for themselves a stronger hold over their feudatories than the kings of Jerusalem had ever enjoyed, and in which trading centres like Famagusta flourished vigorously; and they used the resources of their kingdom, in conjunction with the Hospitallers of Rhodes, to check the progress of the Mahommedans.

Ultimately the discrepancy was traced to an error which, not by Joule's fault, vitiated the determination by the electrical method, for it was found that the standard ohm, as actually defined by the British Association committee and as used by him, was slightly smaller than was intended; when the necessary corrections were made the results of the two methods were almost precisely congruent, and thus the figure 772-55 was vindicated.

Its doctrinal thesis (which is supported with great philosophic acumen and rhetorical power) is the divinity and consubstantiality of the Word; incidentally the character of Basil, which Eunomius had aspersed, is vindicated, and the heretic himself is held up to scorn and contempt.

The subsequent seven years have on balance vindicated this decision.

Although this was contrary to the wish of many field staff and partners, its success vindicated the approach.

Then he " was vindicated by the Spirit ".

Although there have been certain overheads for SML, the decision to launch the SSA has been vindicated by events.

Our commitment to this initiative has been vindicated by the fact that New Deal has already helped over 55,000 Scots into work.