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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to vindicate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be vindicated, justified, or supported; justifiable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being vindicated.
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- adjective able to be
vindicated ;justifiable
Etymologies
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Examples
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An abridgement of the natural freedom of men, by the institutions of political societies, is vindicable only on this foot.
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The elimination of the indefensible, the setting aside of the legendary, the transference of the supposedly miraculous to the order of natural powers and processes so far as vindicable ground for such critical treatment is discovered, is the only way to answer the first of all questions concerning the
Miracles and Supernatural Religion James Morris Whiton 1876
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The extreme pains taken to reconcile the unfortunate beings to their lot; the assiduity of the clergy to make up, by the assurance of divine mercy, the inexorable fate which awaited them; proved that these awful slaughters were onerous to the colonial conscience, and vindicable only as the last resort of the last necessity.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II John West 1840
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