exoneration

exonerate | American Dictionary

exonerate
verb[ T ]
us/ɪɡˈzɑn·əˌreɪt/
to show or state that someone or something is not to be blamed for something bad that happened:
The police officer was exonerated by a grand jury, but the protests continued.

exoneration

noun[ U ]us/ɪɡˌzɑn·əˈreɪ·ʃən/

exonerate | Business English

exonerate
verb[ T ]
 LAW formaluk /ɪɡˈzɒnəreɪt/us
to show or say officially that someone or something is not guilty of something:
We have proof which will completely exonerate him.
exonerate sb from sthI do not wholly exonerate her from blame.

exoneration

noun[ U ]uk /ɪɡˌzɒnəˈreɪʃən/ us /-ˌzɑːnə-/
He spent much of the rest of his life seeking exoneration.

Examples of exonerate

exonerate
In both of these cases, the traditional doctrine of assumption of risk could be applied to exonerate the drivers of negligently caused harms. 23.
Such evidence could ostensibly exonerate a putative father from the responsibility of child support.
This principle differs from as-applied adjudication or severance in that it purports to exonerate the statute completely from charges of unconstitutionality.
One is tempted to think that not all of those arguments can be right if they end up exonerating both sides to the conflict.
Therefore, if a negligently designed software program provides an incorrect diagnosis, recommendation, or dosage or insufficient or incorrect information, a physician is not automatically exonerated.
Even if defendant's conduct would otherwise be held to be illegal, defendant will be exonerated if the challenged conduct yields a sufficient quantity of efficiency.
They would have been exonerated in some way.
Others are largely exonerated from the communitarian agenda: welfare claimants have taken it over.
In contrast, excuses are ex post, individualized exonerating factors that indicate that the wrongdoer was not responsible.
Although the report exonerates any particular individual from direct blame, it does focus almost exclusively on who did or said what.
They largely exonerate the colonial administration from the strongest accusations against it.
There is no way a physician who writes the order, does the procedure, encourages it, or observes it, can exonerate himself from moral complicity.
But welfare claimants are not thereby exonerated from the neo-classical programme.
Reportage concentrated on the noxious impact of sewage and ignored or exonerated the misdemeanors of industrialists.
Some of them followed a standard format proposed by the union, naturally exonerating the leaders of the numerous charges against them.
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