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EXCULPATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exculpated mean? 

EXCULPATED (adjective)
  The adjective EXCULPATED has 1 sense:

1. freed from any question of guiltplay

  Familiarity information: EXCULPATED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXCULPATED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Freed from any question of guilt

Synonyms:

absolved; clear; cleared; exculpated; exonerated; vindicated

Context example:

his official honor is vindicated

Similar:

clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)


 Context examples 


A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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