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EXCULPATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does exculpated mean?
• EXCULPATED (adjective)
The adjective EXCULPATED has 1 sense:
1. freed from any question of guilt
Familiarity information: EXCULPATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freed from any question of guilt
Synonyms:
absolved; clear; cleared; exculpated; exonerated; vindicated
Context example:
his official honor is vindicated
Similar:
clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)
Context examples
A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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