"exculpatory" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From exculpate + -ory (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to, serving for’). Exculpate is derived from Medieval Latin exculpātus and Latin exculptus, the perfect passive participle of exculpō, from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + culpa (“defect, fault; crime”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp-).",
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          "word": "criminative"
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          "word": "criminatory"
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          "word": "incriminating"
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          "word": "incriminatory"
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "exculpatorily"
        },
        {
          "word": "nonexculpatory"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1737, “Information for His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the High Court of Admiralty, against Thomas McAdam, and James Long, Pannels”, in Extract of the Proceedings before James Graham of Airth, Esq; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, in the Action at the Instance of Duncan Forbes, Esq; His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the Said High Court, against Thomas McAdams Souldier, and James Long Corporal, in the Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel —— Hamilton. Laid before the House Pursuant to Their Lordship’s Order April 18, 1737, London: Printed by John Baskett, […], →OCLC, page 12",
          "text": "[I]t remains only to examine the Relevancy of the two general exculpatory Defences pled for the Pannells.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1770 December 6, [John] Dunning, “Debate in the Commons on Serjeant [John] Glynn’s Motion for a Committee to Enquire into the Administration of Criminal Justice, and the Proceedings of the Judges in Westminster Hall, Particularly in Cases Relating to the Liberty of the Press, and the Constitutional Power and Duty of Juries”, in [William Cobbett], editor, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. […], volumes XVI (A.D. 1765–1771), London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [et al.], published 1813, →OCLC, column 1277",
          "text": "In the case of the King against Owen, the judge allowed the defendant to produce exculpatory evidence to the jury. In order to shew, that he had no malicious or traitorous intention in publishing the libel, with which he was charged, the court permitted him to plead, that during the rebellion, he had printed many papers in defence of the government and Hanoverian succession.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1794, “The Life of Pope”, in The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. […], Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, […], →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, The Works of the British Poets. […], volume VIII, London: Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh, 1795, →OCLC, page ix, column 2",
          "text": "He [Alexander Pope] wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke [James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos], who accepted of his excuſe, without believing his profeſſions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1803, [Charles Aldis], “Letter V”, in A Defence of the Character and Conduct of the Late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Founded on Principles of Nature and Reason, as Applied to the Peculiar Circumstances of Her Case; in a Series of Letters to a Lady, London: Printed for James Wallis, […], by Slatter and Munday, […], →OCLC, page 71",
          "text": "This apology, I am not unaware, has been advanced by some of our heroine's friends, and been admitted as exculpatory by others.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill, “Circumstantial Evidence, as an Instrument of Judicial Investigation”, in A Treatise on the Nature, Principles and Rules of Circumstantial Evidence, Especially that of the Presumptive Kind, in Criminal Cases, New York, N.Y.: Baker, Voorhis & Co. […], →OCLC, section II (The Facts Proved, Constituting the Materials of the Evidence, and Basis of Inference or Presumption), page 144",
          "text": "Facts, seen to be of an oppressive character, are sought to be got rid of, by the usual expedients of cross-examination, proof of facts of a contradictory, explanatory, or exculpatory tendency, or, in the last resort, attacks on the veracity of the witnesses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 January, Gerald O. Dykstra, “The User of a Bank’s Night Depository Facilities”, in J. Philip Wernette, editor, Michigan Business Review, volume V, number I, Ann Arbor, Mich.: School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20",
          "text": "Because the patronage is compulsory and bargaining strength is unequal, it is considered as against public policy to permit a professional bailee to accept fees for the safekeeping of goods and then by an exculpatory clause in the bailment contract to relieve itself of all liability—even for its own negligence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, “The Emergence of National Socialism: Introduction”, in Neil Gregor, editor, Nazism (Oxford Readers), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2012, page 59",
          "text": "[P]ointing to the fact that [Adolf] Hitler himself had been Austrian helped found the exculpatory myth that Germany had been the 'first country occupied by Nazism', as if the millions of people who had voted for and joined the Nazi party had been anything other than Germans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, H. L. Pohlman, “Civilian Trials of High-profile Terrorists: U.S. v. Moussaoui”, in Terrorism and the Constitution: The Post-9/11 Cases, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, part II (Briefs Filed in Moussaoui), page 199",
          "text": "Although the government refused to permit videotaped depositions of the three detainees, it conceded in its brief to the Fourth Circuit that it had an obligation under the Due Process Clause to turn over to [Zacarias] Moussaoui any exculpatory evidence in its possession, including any written summaries of exculpatory statements made by the detainees to their interrogators.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August, Michael W. Graves, “Case Management and Report Writing”, in Bernard Goodwin, editor, Digital Archaeology: The Art and Science of Digital Forensics, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Addison-Wesley, page 392",
          "text": "The goal of the investigation is to excavate and present evidence, incriminatory or exculpatory, directly relevant to the complaint issued when the case was first handed over.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing."
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          "Tending",
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          "excuse",
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        ],
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          "clear",
          "clear#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "wrongdoing",
          "wrongdoing"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "disculpate"
        },
        {
          "word": "disculpation"
        },
        {
          "word": "disculpatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "exculpate"
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        {
          "word": "exculpation"
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          "word": "exculpator"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "disculpatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "exonerative"
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        {
          "word": "vindicatory"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "證明無罪的"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhèngmíng wúzuì de",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "证明无罪的"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "syyttömäksi todistava"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "syyttömyyttä osoittava"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "à décharge"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "entlastend"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "giustificativo"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "giustificatorio"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "exculpante"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "exculpatório"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "opravdátelʹnyj",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "оправда́тельный"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "autoexculpatorio"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "exculpatorio"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
          "word": "rättfärdigande"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ɪksˈkʌl.pə.tɹi/",
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      "ipa": "/ɪksˈkʌl.pə.tə.ɹi/",
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      "ipa": "/ɛksˈkʌl.pəˌtɔ.ɹi/",
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  "word": "exculpatory"
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      "word": "exculpatorily"
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      "word": "nonexculpatory"
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  "etymology_text": "From exculpate + -ory (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to, serving for’). Exculpate is derived from Medieval Latin exculpātus and Latin exculptus, the perfect passive participle of exculpō, from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + culpa (“defect, fault; crime”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp-).",
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    "ex‧cul‧pat‧o‧ry"
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  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "disculpate"
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    {
      "word": "disculpation"
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    {
      "word": "exculpate"
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    {
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  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "criminative"
        },
        {
          "word": "criminatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "incriminating"
        },
        {
          "word": "incriminatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "inculpatory"
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          "word": "nonexculpatory"
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        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷelp-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ory",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1737, “Information for His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the High Court of Admiralty, against Thomas McAdam, and James Long, Pannels”, in Extract of the Proceedings before James Graham of Airth, Esq; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, in the Action at the Instance of Duncan Forbes, Esq; His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the Said High Court, against Thomas McAdams Souldier, and James Long Corporal, in the Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel —— Hamilton. Laid before the House Pursuant to Their Lordship’s Order April 18, 1737, London: Printed by John Baskett, […], →OCLC, page 12",
          "text": "[I]t remains only to examine the Relevancy of the two general exculpatory Defences pled for the Pannells.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1770 December 6, [John] Dunning, “Debate in the Commons on Serjeant [John] Glynn’s Motion for a Committee to Enquire into the Administration of Criminal Justice, and the Proceedings of the Judges in Westminster Hall, Particularly in Cases Relating to the Liberty of the Press, and the Constitutional Power and Duty of Juries”, in [William Cobbett], editor, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. […], volumes XVI (A.D. 1765–1771), London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [et al.], published 1813, →OCLC, column 1277",
          "text": "In the case of the King against Owen, the judge allowed the defendant to produce exculpatory evidence to the jury. In order to shew, that he had no malicious or traitorous intention in publishing the libel, with which he was charged, the court permitted him to plead, that during the rebellion, he had printed many papers in defence of the government and Hanoverian succession.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1794, “The Life of Pope”, in The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. […], Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, […], →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, The Works of the British Poets. […], volume VIII, London: Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh, 1795, →OCLC, page ix, column 2",
          "text": "He [Alexander Pope] wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke [James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos], who accepted of his excuſe, without believing his profeſſions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1803, [Charles Aldis], “Letter V”, in A Defence of the Character and Conduct of the Late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Founded on Principles of Nature and Reason, as Applied to the Peculiar Circumstances of Her Case; in a Series of Letters to a Lady, London: Printed for James Wallis, […], by Slatter and Munday, […], →OCLC, page 71",
          "text": "This apology, I am not unaware, has been advanced by some of our heroine's friends, and been admitted as exculpatory by others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill, “Circumstantial Evidence, as an Instrument of Judicial Investigation”, in A Treatise on the Nature, Principles and Rules of Circumstantial Evidence, Especially that of the Presumptive Kind, in Criminal Cases, New York, N.Y.: Baker, Voorhis & Co. […], →OCLC, section II (The Facts Proved, Constituting the Materials of the Evidence, and Basis of Inference or Presumption), page 144",
          "text": "Facts, seen to be of an oppressive character, are sought to be got rid of, by the usual expedients of cross-examination, proof of facts of a contradictory, explanatory, or exculpatory tendency, or, in the last resort, attacks on the veracity of the witnesses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 January, Gerald O. Dykstra, “The User of a Bank’s Night Depository Facilities”, in J. Philip Wernette, editor, Michigan Business Review, volume V, number I, Ann Arbor, Mich.: School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20",
          "text": "Because the patronage is compulsory and bargaining strength is unequal, it is considered as against public policy to permit a professional bailee to accept fees for the safekeeping of goods and then by an exculpatory clause in the bailment contract to relieve itself of all liability—even for its own negligence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, “The Emergence of National Socialism: Introduction”, in Neil Gregor, editor, Nazism (Oxford Readers), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2012, page 59",
          "text": "[P]ointing to the fact that [Adolf] Hitler himself had been Austrian helped found the exculpatory myth that Germany had been the 'first country occupied by Nazism', as if the millions of people who had voted for and joined the Nazi party had been anything other than Germans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, H. L. Pohlman, “Civilian Trials of High-profile Terrorists: U.S. v. Moussaoui”, in Terrorism and the Constitution: The Post-9/11 Cases, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, part II (Briefs Filed in Moussaoui), page 199",
          "text": "Although the government refused to permit videotaped depositions of the three detainees, it conceded in its brief to the Fourth Circuit that it had an obligation under the Due Process Clause to turn over to [Zacarias] Moussaoui any exculpatory evidence in its possession, including any written summaries of exculpatory statements made by the detainees to their interrogators.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August, Michael W. Graves, “Case Management and Report Writing”, in Bernard Goodwin, editor, Digital Archaeology: The Art and Science of Digital Forensics, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Addison-Wesley, page 392",
          "text": "The goal of the investigation is to excavate and present evidence, incriminatory or exculpatory, directly relevant to the complaint issued when the case was first handed over.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing."
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        [
          "clear",
          "clear#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "wrongdoing",
          "wrongdoing"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "disculpatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "exonerative"
        },
        {
          "word": "vindicatory"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪksˈkʌl.pə.tɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪksˈkʌl.pə.tə.ɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛksˈkʌl.pəˌtɔ.ɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪks-/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-uk-exculpatory.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f1/En-uk-exculpatory.oga/En-uk-exculpatory.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/En-uk-exculpatory.oga",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "證明無罪的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhèngmíng wúzuì de",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "证明无罪的"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "syyttömäksi todistava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "syyttömyyttä osoittava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "à décharge"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "entlastend"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "giustificativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "giustificatorio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "exculpante"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "exculpatório"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "opravdátelʹnyj",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "оправда́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "autoexculpatorio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "exculpatorio"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "tending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing",
      "word": "rättfärdigande"
    }
  ],
  "word": "exculpatory"
}