ACQUITTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquittal mean? 

• ACQUITTAL (noun)
  The noun ACQUITTAL has 1 sense:

1. a judgment of not guilty

  Familiarity information: ACQUITTAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACQUITTAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A judgment of not guilty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("acquittal" is a kind of...):

final decision; final judgment (a judgment disposing of the case before the court; after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Antonym:

conviction ((criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed)

Derivation:

acquit (pronounce not guilty of criminal charges)

 Context examples 

“She is innocent, my Elizabeth,” said I, “and that shall be proved; fear nothing, but let your spirits be cheered by the assurance of her acquittal.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Too much indebted to the event for his acquittal.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

His acquittal was complete, his friendship warmly honoured, a lively interest excited for his friend, and his description of the fine country about Lyme so feelingly attended to by the party, that an earnest desire to see Lyme themselves, and a project for going thither was the consequence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Acquit me here, and procure for me, when it is allowable, the acquittal and good wishes of that said Emma Woodhouse, whom I regard with so much brotherly affection, as to long to have her as deeply and as happily in love as myself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)