Exculpatory

Quick meaning: Exculpatory is an adjective meaning Tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing.

Meaning

Tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing.

Example Sentences

[I]t remains only to examine the Relevancy of the two general exculpatory Defences pled for the Pannells.

This apology, I am not unaware, has been advanced by some of our heroine's friends, and been admitted as exculpatory by others.

He [Alexander Pope] wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke [James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos], who accepted of his excuſe, without believing his profeſſions.

Facts, seen to be of an oppressive character, are sought to be got rid of, by the usual expedients of cross-examination, proof of facts of a contradictory, explanatory, or exculpatory tendency, or, in the last resort, attacks on the veracity of the witnesses.

Synonyms for exculpatory

Depending on context, synonyms include absolutionary, absolutory, absolving, exonerative, vindicatory, forgiving.

Antonyms for exculpatory

Common opposites include criminative, criminatory, damning, incriminating, incriminatory, inculpatory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include extenuating, forgiving, exonerative, absolvitory, vindicatory, justificative.

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