Vindicate Definition

vĭndĭ-kāt
vindicated, vindicates, vindicating
verb
vindicated, vindicates, vindicating
To clear from criticism, blame, guilt, suspicion, etc.; uphold by evidence or argument.
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To defend or maintain (a cause, claim, etc.) against opposition.
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To serve as justification for; justify.
A success which vindicated their belief in him.
Webster's New World
To lay claim to or establish possession of (something for oneself or another)
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To avenge.
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Origin of Vindicate

  • From Latin vindicātus, perfect passive participle of vindicō (“lay legal claim to something; set free; protect, avenge, punish"), from vim, accusative singular of vÄ«s (“force, power"), + dÄ«cō (“say; declare, state").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin vindicāre vindicāt- from vindex vindic- surety, avenger deik- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vindicate Sentence Examples

  • Miracles alone cannot vindicate the divinity of immoral doctrine.

  • It reasserts them, with resolute loyalty; but if philosophy ought to vindicate, to explain, perhaps incidentally to modify, even, it may be, to purify our primary beliefs, intuitionalism is hardly a philosophy at all.

  • But in addition to bringing forward a fundamental and philosophical view of morbid processes, which probably contributed more than any other single cause to vindicate for pathology the place which he claimed for it among the biological sciences, Virchow made many important contributions to histology and morbid anatomy and to the study of particular diseases.

  • He was less fortunate in his efforts to vindicate the rights of his wife Beatrix to the throne of Portugal.

  • The main object of the Moralists is to propound a system of natural theology, and to vindicate, so far as natural religion is concerned, the ways of God to man.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIN

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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Words Starting With V and Ending With E

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With V9 Letter Words Ending With E