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Webster 1913 Edition
Exoneration
Ex-onˊer-a′tion
,Noun.
[L.
exoneratio
: cf. F. Exonération
.] The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exoneration
EXONERA'TION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
exoneration
exoneration
See also: exonération
English
Noun
exoneration (plural exonerations)
- An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.
- 1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge
- This animal, like the camel, is domable, and will carry from seven to nine stone; it will fall on its knees for the convenient reception and exoneration of its burden.
- 2007 May 14, Patrick Mcgeehan, “New York Plan for DNA Data in Most Crimes”, in New York Times:
- Mr. Spitzer’s proposal also calls for the creation of a state office that would be responsible for studying all cases that resulted in exonerations and looking for flaws in the system that led to those wrongful convictions.
- 1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge
- (uncountable) The state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
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Translations
the act of freeing a person of blame
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