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单词 vindication
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vindicationn.

Brit. /ˌvɪndᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌvɪndəˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English vyndicacion, vyndycacion.
Etymology: < Old French (now French dialect) vindication vengeance, or < Latin vindicātio action of claiming, defending, punishing, etc., < vindicāre : see vindicate v. Compare Spanish vindicacion, Portuguese -ação, French vendication, Italian vendicazione.
1.
a. The action of avenging or revenging. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun] > infliction of
hevening1303
wreakingc1374
vengeance-takingc1386
vindication1484
revenging1485
avengementa1513
avenging1541
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > action of taking revenge
wreakingc1374
vengeance-takingc1386
vindication1484
revenging1485
avenging1541
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xvi An asse..smote hym [the lion] in the forhede with his feete by maner of vyndycacion.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 83 [She] pursued hym at alle houres, in alle places, for to distroye hym, in makynge vyndicacion of the deth of his sayd moder.
1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 77 As to private Vindication of Injuries, that which we more especially call Revenge, this I shall readily allow to be utterly unlawful.
b. Retribution, punishment. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun]
wrakec825
wrechec1175
yielda1200
wrakedomc1275
vengeancea1300
hevening1303
vengement1338
wreakc1340
rewardc1350
retributiona1425
revengeancec1480
wratha1500
revengementa1513
avengeance1535
avenge1568
ultion1575
venge1587
wreck1591
nemesis1597
revanche1615
vindict1639
vindication1647
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. ii. 17 Things carried so far on in a wrong way must needs..require a vindication so sharpe and smarting, as that the nation would groan under it.
2. Deliverance; emancipation. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun]
alesingOE
liverisona1225
deliverancec1300
healtha1325
redemptiona1325
deliveringc1330
savementc1330
salvationc1374
savinga1387
rescousc1390
rescuec1400
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rescuingc1405
acquittancec1430
rescours1439
saveage1507
deliveration1509
deliverya1513
riddancea1530
liverance1553
rescousing1605
vindication1613
out-takinga1617
acquittal1619
vindicating1624
deliverancy1641
safety1654
1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 7 So abhorred a neighbour, from whom their vindication, into liberty, must bee maintained by their own constancy.
3.
a. The action of vindicating or defending against censure, calumny, etc.; justification by proof or explanation.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > vindication
defensiona1425
assertion1532
apology1533
propugnation1575
apologizing1611
propugnating1657
vindication1669
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I To Rdr. The vindication of the Jewish and Christian Religion, against the Gentile Philosophers.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 3 That the Memory of those..may not loose the recompence due to their Virtue, but..may find a vindication in a better age.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 34 The Soldiers publish'd a vindication, as they call'd it, of their Proceedings and Resolutions.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 37 Pere Mabillon is now engag'd in the Vindication of this Tear, which a learned Ecclesiastic..would have suppress'd, as a false and ridiculous Relick.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. ix. 59 The author of the vindication of your conduct..writes from his own mere motion.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 299 Leave the vindication of your character to your children.
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. xi. 111 He enriched Mrs. Jones for life, in gratitude for her vindication of his lost and early love.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vii. 44 Jasper..begged to thank Miss Landless for her vindication of his character.
b. In the phrase in vindication of.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > in justification of [phrase]
in vindication of1660
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection v. iv. 266* in Justice Vindicated It will not be amisse before I conclude to add a word or two in vindication of Sir Edward Coke.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋3 I can add other circumstances in Vindication of the Account of this Learned Body.
1752 Bp. Thomas in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 307 Then Lord Sandwich spoke in Vindication of the Measure.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. iv. 118 It has been said, in vindication of this inequality, that the properties are of a different description.
c. A justifying fact or circumstance.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > vindication > that which
coverture1583
vindication1846
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. iv. 45 The position which it has won..is itself its vindication now.
1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey x. 134 The great vindication of evil is, we could not manifest so much virtue without it.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvii. 179 It must..stand..as my vindication for the step, in case we should be overtaken by disaster.
4. The action of asserting or maintaining.
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the mind > language > statement > maintaining or upholding as true > [noun]
maintaininga1387
maintenancec1450
upholding1587
asserting1644
vindication1871
1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. vi. 166 The Commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’, is a Divine vindication of the greatness and sanctity of man.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §3. 490 The bulk of the members supported Eliot in his last vindication of English liberty.
5. Roman Law. (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > fact of becoming property of heir immediately
vindication1880
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 141 A legacy by vindication is so called because the thing bequeathed becomes the property of the legatee in quiritarian right the moment the inheritance has been entered upon.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 268 Actions in rem are called vindications; while those in which we contend that something ought to be given to or done for us are called condictions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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