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/ɪgzˈɑnərˌeɪtɪd/ 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.

adjective

exonerated adj. Same as exculpated.

Synonyms: absolved, cleared, exculpated, vindicated.

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Etymology of 'Exonerated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exonerated" Quotes from Famous Books

... also deserves remembrance both in France and America—dismissed once but exonerated, returning later to succeed the pessimistic Cadillac and to lay the foundations of New Orleans on the only dry spot he had found on his first journey up the river, there to plant the seed of the fruits and melons and pumpkins of the garden on Dauphin ...

— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley

... imparts a modern scientific fact which sets the whole wild-animal question in a new light. In every case of assault by bears where complete evidence has been obtainable, the United States Biological Survey, after fullest investigation, has exonerated the bear; he has always been attacked or has had reason to believe himself attacked. In more than thirty summers of field-work Vernon Bailey, Chief Field-Naturalist of the Biological Survey, has slept on the ground ...

— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard

... feeling of delicacy for the friends of him who was no more, was made as brief and as private as possible. Beaufort proved the facts which exonerated me from any imputation in the matter; and upon the same day the court delivered the decision: "That Lieutenant O'Malley was not guilty of the charges preferred against him, and that he should be released from arrest, and ...

— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... friend. The blague had been at last knocked out of him, thanks to Un Mangeur de Blanc, as the little Machine-Fixer expressively called The Fighting Sheeney. Which mangeur, by the way (having been exonerated from all blame by the more enlightened spectators of the unequal battle) strode immediately and ferociously over to B. and me, a hideous grin crackling upon the coarse surface of his mug, and demanded—hiking at the ...

— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... measure the poor debtors—the Thetes, small tenants, and proprietors—together with their families, were rescued from suffering and peril. But these were not the only debtors in the state: the creditors and landlords of the exonerated Thetes were doubtless in their turn debtors to others, and were less able to discharge their obligations in consequence of the loss inflicted upon them by the Seisachtheia. It was to assist these wealthier debtors, whose bodies were in no danger—yet without ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

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