VINDICATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vindicated mean? 

• VINDICATED (adjective)
  The adjective VINDICATED has 1 sense:

1. freed from any question of guilt

  Familiarity information: VINDICATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VINDICATED (adjective)

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 

Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They vindicated him against the base aspersion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But I knew, and his genius and my judgment were vindicated when he made that magnificent hit with his ‘Forge.’

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Having described the genesis of their journey, and paid a handsome tribute to his friend Professor Challenger, coupled with an apology for the incredulity with which his assertions, now fully vindicated, had been received, he gave the actual course of their journey, carefully withholding such information as would aid the public in any attempt to locate this remarkable plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I could have easily vindicated humankind from the imputation of singularity upon the last article, if there had been any swine in that country (as unluckily for me there were not), which, although it may be a sweeter quadruped than a Yahoo, cannot, I humbly conceive, in justice, pretend to more cleanliness; and so his honour himself must have owned, if he had seen their filthy way of feeding, and their custom of wallowing and sleeping in the mud.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He quickly came to know much of the ways of the man-animals, but familiarity did not breed contempt. The more he came to know them, the more they vindicated their superiority, the more they displayed their mysterious powers, the greater loomed their god-likeness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)