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/ɪgzˈɑnərˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Exonerate v. t. (past & past part. exonerated; pres. part. exonerating)

To unload; to disburden; to discharge. (Obs.) "All exonerate themselves into one common duct."

To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.

To discharge from duty or obligation, as a bail.

Synonyms: To absolve; acquit; exculpate. See Absolve.

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Etymology of 'Exonerate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exonerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Fabii, the priests called fecials were the most decided, who, on the religious ground, urged the senate that they should lay the whole guilt and penalty of the fact upon him that committed it, and so exonerate the rest. These fecials Numa Pompilius, the mildest and justest of kings, constituted guardians of peace, and the judges and determiners of all causes by which war may justifiably be made. The senate referring the whole matter to the people, and the priests ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... not blameworthy in the matter—are points which maybe almost indefinitely discussed. They were not as blameworthy as they are often assumed to have been, but it is difficult honestly to see how we are to exonerate them from blame altogether. The theory that the end justifies the means has never been a favourite with honourable men, and some at least of the means by which the Union of Great Britain and Ireland was carried would have left fatal stains upon the noblest cause that ever yet inspired the ...

— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless

... young Robin if it should turn out that his father, Sir Duncan, has destroyed a good many of the native race in India. It may reasonably be hoped that he has done so, which would tend very strongly to exonerate his son. But the evidence laid before your Worship and ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... phase of her entanglement. She might call the reward blood money, and refuse absolutely to touch it, but who, outside of her own little circle, would know or believe that she had refused? And if all the remainder of the world knew and should exonerate her, would not the wretched man himself always believe that she had sold him ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... Rollo, decidedly; "I did not agree to any thing about it." He thought that this would exonerate him ...

— Rollo's Museum • Jacob Abbott

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