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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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... living, return as speedily as possible to your afflicted and anxious parents, who are even now mourning you as dead. You can return in safety; for your cousin, whom you supposed you had fatally wounded, recovered therefrom, and publicly exonerated you from all blame in the matter. He is now, however, no more—having died of late. Elvira, his wife, is also dead. She died insane. As a partial restitution for the injury done you, your cousin has made you heir, by will, to all his property, real estate and personal, amounting, it is said, ...

— Ella Barnwell - A Historical Romance of Border Life • Emerson Bennett

... deeply moved as he repeated what Mr. Love had told him of the lonely and forlorn condition in which he must leave his petted only child, and went on to describe the hasty marriage and the death scene, so immediately following. Their kind hearts yearned over the little orphaned bride, and they exonerated Edward from all blame for the part he acted in the short, ...

— Grandmother Elsie • Martha Finley

... elbow—the suit was resisted. Messrs. Burlington and Smith did not care to run the awful risk which Mr. Larkin, behind the scenes, invited them to accept for his sake. There was first a faltering; then a bold renunciation and exposure of Mr. Jos. Larkin by the firm, who, though rather lamely, exonerated themselves as having been quite taken in by ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... suspicions took that direction, and we hunted down the cashier and the friend, but they were quite exonerated. It only proves that her voice has an ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Osborn, who in the meantime had succeeded Sir Edward Hawke in the Portsmouth command, Lieut. Sax and his gang were consequently called upon to face no ordeal more terrible than an "inquiry into their proceedings and behaviour." Needless to say, they were unanimously exonerated, the court holding that the discharge of their duty fully justified them in the discharge of their muskets. [Footnote: Admiralty Records 1. 5925—Minutes at a Court-Martial held on board H.M.S. Prince George at Portsmouth, 14 Nov. 1755. Precedent for the procedure in this case ...

— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

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