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exculpate

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exculpate PRONUNCIATION: (EK-skuhl-payt, ek-SKUHL-)

MEANING: verb tr.: To clear of guilt or blame.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ex- (from) + culpa (blame). Earliest documented use: 1656.

USAGE: "It did not exculpate a killer from responsibility, but it did save them from the gallows."

A Provocation to Change; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Sep 24, 2003.

See more usage examples of exculpate in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree and through that bad companionship must perish with it. -Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)





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