What is "exculpation" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does exculpation mean in English? Meaning of exculpation definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "exculpation" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "exculpation": a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

Noun

  • Meaning: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
  • Example: he kept finding excuses to stay every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job his transparent self-justification was unacceptable
  • Synonyms: alibi exculpation excuse self-justification
  • Hyponyms: extenuation mitigation
  • Hypernyms: defence defense vindication
  • Meaning of "exculpation": the act of freeing from guilt or blame

    Noun

  • Meaning: the act of freeing from guilt or blame
  • Synonyms: exculpation
  • Hypernyms: forgiveness pardon
  • Synonyms:

    excuse, exoneration, acquittal, vindication, acquittance,

    Antonyms:

    blame, conviction,

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