"exculpation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-exculpation.wav [US] Forms: exculpations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin exculpātiō. By surface analysis, exculpate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:bor|ML.:exculpātiō|text=+}} [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Medieval Latin", "term" : "exculpātiō", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "la-med" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "exculpation", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="exculpation"> Borrowed from Medieval Latin exculpātiō., {{surf|en|exculpate|-ion|nocat=1}} By surface analysis, exculpate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} exculpation (countable and uncountable, plural exculpations)
  1. The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime): exculpació [feminine] (Catalan), ekskulpaatio (Finnish), disculpation [feminine] (French), दोषमुक्ति (doṣmukti) (Hindi), निर्दोषीकरण (nirdoṣīkraṇ) (Hindi), uniewinnienie [neuter] (Polish), usprawiedliwienie [neuter] (Polish), oczyszczenie [neuter] (Polish), exculpação [feminine] (Portuguese), exculpación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-exculpation-en-noun-4Rkp-SCS Categories (other): English entries referencing missing etymons, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries referencing missing etymons: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 46 54 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 62 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 51 49 Synonyms: disculpation, exoneration, quittance, absolution [obsolete], acquittance [obsolete], acquitment [obsolete], acquittal, assoilment [archaic], compurgation [historical], disculpation, exculpation, exoneration, not guilty, quittance, vindication Disambiguation of 'the act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime': 97 3
  2. That which exculpates; an excuse. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: alibi, essoin
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.