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Definition of Exonerated
1. Adjective. Freed from any question of guilt. "His official honor is vindicated"
Similar to: Clean-handed, Guiltless, Innocent
Derivative terms: Clear, Clearness
Definition of Exonerated
1. Adjective. Freed from any question of guilt, acquitted. ¹
2. Verb. (past of exonerate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exonerated
1. exonerate [v] - See also: exonerate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exonerated
Literary usage of Exonerated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, as Respects Property: Partly by John Edward Bright, b, Roper Stote Donnison Roper, Edward Jacob (1849)
"Husband's estate exonerated where intention that wife's should be solely liable.
6. Wife exonerated ... Not exonerated where debt not ment at same time. 18. ..."
2. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1859)
"Order of their application. Contribution to Charges—where thrown on mixed Fund.
II. Mortgaged Estates, when to be exonerated out of other Funds. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"Prothero, ante, is exonerated, (72) Burton v. Knowlton, VoJ. III, 107113.
the Court is neither to go ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"105, Code 1899, fixing the amount for redemption of forfeited land, and declaring
the land redeemed and exonerated by payment of such amount actually made, ..."
5. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1807)
"... in the manner, and under the directions and restrictions in this act mentioned:
provided that the annual amount of land-tax to be exonerated by virtue ..."
6. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Earl Greif thought that the fact admitted by Mr. Brougham exonerated the government,
and rendered his proposition superfluous. ..."
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