exculpation
noun
clearance from a charge of guilt or fault; vindication.
self-exculpation
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a word derived from
exculpation.
Example Sentences
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This is not something Hughes himself could ever have written about directly: it would have looked too much like self-exculpation.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2015
The Promise is a glossy exercise in self-exculpation.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2011
Later it will turn out that this habit of self-exculpation masks a deeper tendency toward self-blame, but in any case Emilia is an interestingly complicated person.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2011
That was all the colonel said, and though his friend was voluble in self-exculpation and condemnation, he did not answer him a word till they arrived at the police office.
From A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories by William Dean Howells
I may add that no voice from heaven sounded, and that I never made any attempt at self-exculpation, or invited my father to sacrifice himself a second time.
From The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy by Mary Cholmondeley
