Definition for Exculpation:

• the act of freeing from guilt or blame

Synonyms for Exculpation:

• n.

  •
  • law.
  •absolution (noun)
  • re-leases,
  • compurgations,
  • re lease,
  • re-lease,
  • re leases.
  •acquittal (noun)
  • defrayal,
  • amnesty,
  • dismissal,
  • liberation,
  • discharge,
  • exoneration,
  • absolution,
  • freedom,
  • clearance.
  •act (noun)
  • exculpation.
  •alibi (noun)
  • alibi.
  •clearing from accusation (noun)
  • acquittance,
  • excuse.
  •communication (noun)
  • self-justification.
  •defense (noun)
  • jives,
  • off-time,
  • copout,
  • cleanup,
  • jive,
  • apologetics,
  • cleanups.
  •forgiveness (noun)
  • lenity,
  • pardon,
  • indemnity,
  • remittal.
  •pardon (noun)
  • lifesavers.
  •respite (noun)
  • interregna,
  • re spite,
  • pro tractions,
  • re-spite,
  • re-lief,
  • re cesses,
  • re-spites,
  • re-cess,
  • de-lay,
  • re laxations,
  • de ferment,
  • de ferments,
  • de lays,
  • pro-traction,
  • pro traction,
  • de-lays,
  • re laxation,
  • inter missions,
  • pro-tractions,
  • re-laxation,
  • de lay,
  • de-ferment,
  • re lief,
  • re spites,
  • de-ferments,
  • re-laxations.
  •vindication (noun)
  • mitigation,
  • refutation,
  • apology.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • behaviour.
  •n.
  • acquittal,
  • defense,
  • forgiveness,
  • interregnum,
  • justification,
  • leisure,
  • lifeboat,
  • lifesaver,
  • palliative,
  • release,
  • respite,
  • sanctification,
  • vindication,
  • Interregnums,
  • time out,
  • Compurgation,
  • lifeboats,
  • why and wherefore,
  • palliatives,
  • whatfor,
  • wherefores,
  • whole idea.

Antonyms for Exculpation:

• n.

  • clearing from accusation
    blame, conviction.
  • Other antonyms:
    arraignment, condemnation, impeachment, injury, indictment, censure, accusation, denunciation, offense, incrimination, charge, complaint, insult, imputation, prosecution, wrong.

Exculpation Sentence Examples:

• That the said Warren Hastings, being absent, on account of ill health, from the Presidency of Calcutta, at a place called Nia Serai, about forty miles distant therefrom, did carry on a secret correspondence with the Resident at Benares, and, under color that the instalments for the new rent or tribute were in arrear, did of his own authority make, in about one year, a second revolution in the government of the territory aforesaid, and did order and direct that Durbege Sing aforesaid, father of the Rajah, and administrator of his authority, should be deprived of his office and of his lands, and thrown into prison, and did threaten him with death: although he, the said Warren Hastings, had, at the time of the making his new arrangement, declared himself sensible that the rent aforesaid might require abatement; although he was well apprised that the administrator had been for two months of his administration in a weak and languid state of body, and wholly incapable of attending to the business of the collections; though a considerable drought had prevailed in the said province, and did consequently affect the regularity and produce of the collections; and though he had other sufficient reason to believe that the said administrator had not himself received from the collectors of government and the cultivators of the soil the rent in arrear: yet he, the said Warren Hastings, without any known process, or recording any answer, defence, plea, exculpation, or apology from the party, or recording any other grounds of rigor against him, except the following paragraph of a letter from the Resident, not only gave the order as aforesaid, but did afterwards, without laying any other or better ground before the Council - General, persuade them to, and did procure from them, a confirmation of the aforesaid cruel and illegal proceedings, the correspondence concerning which had not been before communicated: he pleading his illness for not communicating the same, though that illness did not prevent him from carrying on correspondence concerning the deposition of the said administrator, and other important affairs in various places.

• This might be said in his exculpation.

Hypernym for Exculpation:

• n.

  • communication
    extenuation, mitigation.

Hyponym for Exculpation:

• n.

  • act
    forgiveness, pardon.
  • communication
    defense, vindication, defence.