vindication
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Vindication is a sweet thing — when you get vindication, you've been proven right or justified in doing something. Everyone accused of a crime craves vindication.
Vindication is good, but it can only come after something bad, like being accused of something you didn't do. If a teacher thought you cheated, but then announced to the whole class that you didn't, you're getting vindication. An accused criminal who is exonerated — cleared of the crime — gets vindication. If you believe something crazy — like that your underdog sports team could win a championship — and it comes true, that's a vindication of your beliefs.
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the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.“friends provided a vindication of his position”synonyms: exonerationtypes:justificationthe act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoningrehabilitationvindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputationtype of:clearingthe act of freeing from suspicion
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the justification for some act or belieftypes:alibi(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in questionalibi, exculpation, excuse, self-justificationa defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.extenuation, mitigationa partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstancestype of:justificationa statement in explanation of some action or belief
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Vocabulary lists containing vindication
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