exculpatoryadj.
/ɛksˈkʌlpətəri/ Of statements, evidence, etc.: Adapted or intended to clear from blame or a charge of guilt; apologetic, vindicatory. Const. of.
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expurgatory1646
disculpatory?1756
exculpatory1781
absolvent1825
exculpativea1832
expurgatorial1854
1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 142 He wrote an exculpatory Letter to the Duke.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. vii. 270 Witnesses..exculpatory, inculpatory.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. iii. 106 Two exculpatory pleas.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 63 594 The statement..is not, however, altogether so exculpatory of the French.
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