Vindication

Quick meaning: Vindication is a noun meaning (countable) An act of asserting or maintaining; an assertion.

Meaning

(countable) An act of asserting or maintaining; an assertion.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The action of vindicating; also, the state of being vindicated.
2. The action of avenging or taking revenge.
3. The action of setting free; deliverance.
4. Punishment, retribution.
5. (countable) An argument, fact, piece of evidence, etc., which vindicates (“clears someone of an accusation or suspicion; justifies a belief or claim by providing evidence or proof”).
6. (countable, Ancient Rome, law, historical) A legal claim for a declaration that one is the owner of a thing or the holder of a right; an action in rem.

Example Sentences

Coordinate term: condiction

[T]he loud "Aye, Aye" of the bulk of the members [of Parliament] supported [John] Eliot in his last vindication of English liberty.

These are the reasons which I have gathered from philosophy and nature; to which I can add other circumstances in vindication of the account of this learned body who publish this almanack.

[H]e was satisfied that Alice yet lived; he hoped she might yet escape and return. […] He enriched Mrs. Jones for life, in gratitude for her vindication of his lost and early love: he promised the amplest rewards for the smallest clue.

Word Forms

• vindications

Synonyms for vindication

Depending on context, synonyms include absolution, avowance, exculpation, exoneration, acquittance, acquitment.

Antonyms for vindication

Common opposites include nonvindication.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exoneration, defence, defense, whitewash, demand, claim.

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