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Definitionv. show to be right by providing justification or proof
Last update: June 22, 2015
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Even in the middle ages there were not wanting those - the St Victors, Bonaventura - who sought to vindicate mystical if not moral redemption as the central thought of Christianity. [verb]
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But in addition to bringing forward a fundamental and philosophical view of morbid processes, which probably contributed more than any other single cause to vindicate for pathology the place which he claimed for it among the biological sciences, Virchow made many important contributions to histology and morbid anatomy and to the study of particular diseases. [verb]
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He was vindicated by the court. [verb]
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Thou hast to vindicate the high trust which has been bestowed on thee through my assurance that it was dearly well-merited. [verb]
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"These are the sentiments," said Morton, "that your enemies impute to you, and which palliate, if they do not vindicate, the cruel measures which the council have directed against you." [verb]
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"And these supposed rights you would vindicate with your sword, I presume." [verb]
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I am prepared to vindicate my conduct before the king, and have no reason for fear. [verb]
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He had displayed the one, and vindicated the other. [verb]
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"O, the propriety of the LOCALE is easily vindicated," replied her father, with a sneer. [verb]
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Even this I must bear, and even from this unworthy suspicion I must descend to vindicate myself. [verb]
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This charge involved others, and it was to defend them, as well as to vindicate himself, that Newman wrote the Apologia. [verb]
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