vindicator
a person or thing that clears someone of blame, suspicion, doubt, or the like, or that proves someone right through evidence or argument:His vindicator, the historian in charge of Soviet military archives, carefully analyzed the files and declared him innocent of working as a double agent.
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How to use vindicator in a sentence
It confers on the plaintiff the status of a vindicator of rights, and it puts on notice those who are, or might contemplate, acting on incorrect interpretations of the law.
Campus speech rules are hurting students. They deserve recompense — even if it’s just $1. | George Will | March 12, 2021 | Washington PostThe late-life Vidal presented himself as a national conscience, a vindicator of small r-republican ideals against imperial excess.
The Youngstown vindicator named 2011 the “Year of the Earthquakes” in Mahoning County.
Youngstown Rocks: Is Fracking Causing Earthquakes in Ohio? | John Avlon | January 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTA fifth was added to the bloody catalogue, which roused the indignation of the virtuous vindicator; and why?
Thus again the abolitionist reappeared in the vindicator of our independence.
Another vindicator of the South has appeared in an individual who is among those that have done honor to American literature.
If there is not such a One, the Helper and vindicator of meek fidelity, virtue has no sanction and well-doing no recompense.
Judges and Ruth | Robert A. WatsonIt is ingeniously asserted by the vindicator that a servant of James brought the report that he had ridden away.
James VI and the Gowrie Mystery | Andrew Lang
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