Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of exoneration; exonerating; freeing from a burden or an obligation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Freeing from a
burden orobligation ; tending toexonerate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective providing absolution
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Examples
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“This usage,” he said, “should be referred to as the past exonerative.”
Tactical Retreat 2007
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His civil case, in which he seeks damages from the Kenyan Government for his ordeal, is up this week, although thanks to a limp judicial system no one expects a very exonerative outcome.
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SCHNEIDER: I called it the "past exonerative," meaning, something was done wrong but nobody knows who did it.
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WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: They have coined a whole new grammatical tense in Washington, which is the past exonerative.
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This leads the Alliance to declare that especially for youngsters and pregnant women, the "all clear" for consumption of Gulf seafood is "premature," a conclusion that conflicts with the exonerative findings of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Edward Flattau 2012
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