exculpate
verb (used with object)
to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
will exculpate
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future tenseof exculpate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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You think you will exculpate and excuse yourself; you desire my forgiveness.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
I am very sorry this has occurred, but you at least will exculpate me from the charge of coquetry.
From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock
"You will exculpate yourself by denying the truth of this story, then?"
From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
I wish, Sir, you would enable me to afford such an answer to it as will exculpate the State from any censure which Mr Gillon may have deservedly incurred.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Jared Sparks
Perhaps you will exculpate me when you remember the last conversation we had; but what I write for at present is to ask if you would waive ceremony and come to dinner with us to-night.
From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
