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exculpatory

[ ik-skuhl-puh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.


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Other Words From

  • nonex·culpa·tory adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of exculpatory1

First recorded in 1770–80; exculpate + -ory 1

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Example Sentences

By the way, more has happened this week on the exculpatory front.

Choose your narrative, get your exculpatory/inculpatory interpretation.

Understanding the neurophysiology of the brain, therefore, would seem to be as exculpatory as finding a tumor in it.

He is a convicted killer, but his boyishness is disarming, almost exculpatory.

None of that evidence is dispositive--but it is certainly not exculpatory either.

The queen mother's exculpatory statements may be examined in Le Laboureur, Add.

But the justice done to Edgar she gloried in, as an apology for her feelings, and exculpatory of her weakness.

Reflections, indignant or exculpatory, on the conduct of the French in this Business are useless to Friedrich, and to us.

His business is to be reticent, not exculpatory; to maintain silence, not set up a defence nor yet proclaim the truth.

February 16, 1680, he addressed to the Jesuit General Oliva a long exculpatory letter.

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