vindicator

[ vin-di-key-ter ]
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noun
  1. 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.

Origin of vindicator

1
First recorded in 1560–70; vindicat(e) + -or1

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How to use vindicator in a sentence

  • 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. Watson
  • It is ingeniously asserted by the vindicator that a servant of James brought the report that he had ridden away.