Definition of Acquitting

1. Verb. (present participle of acquit) ¹

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Definition of Acquitting

1. acquit [v] - See also: acquit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquitting

acquited
acquites
acquiting
acquitment
acquitments
acquits
acquittal
acquittals
acquittance
acquittanced
acquittances
acquittaunce
acquitted
acquitter
acquitters
acquitting (current term)
acracies
acracy
acral
acral lentiginous melanoma
acrania
acranial
acranius
acrasia
acrasial
acrasias
acrasin
acrasins
acraspeda
acrasy

Literary usage of Acquitting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"Verbs of accusing, condemning, and acquitting, take the Genitive of the Charge or Penalty: — arguit me furti, he accuses me of theft. ..."

2. Faust: A Dramatic Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1834)
"... the duty of condemning or acquitting him devolved. The spell is now broken."* In Appendix, No. 2, I have given some account of the Story of Faust, ..."

3. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland by David Wilkins, William Stubbs (1869)
"British Bishops possibly present at the Council of Sardica^ hut certainly join that Council in acquitting 5. ..."

4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... for acquitting the lord Torrington, is turned out of his government of Deal, his command at sea, and his company in the lord Sidney's regiment of foot ..."

5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"The cause is now submitted to you—you will discharge your duty like faithful citizens, by acquitting, if you can conscientiously, otherwise by convicting ..."

6. The Methodist Review (1873)
"Q. Did it go to the extent of giving testimony in behalf of each other, or of acquitting if upon a jury ? A. I think that was one of the objects; ..."

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