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Definition of Acquitting
1. acquit [v] - See also: acquit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquitting
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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