Definitions for exculpatory

exculpatory ex·cul·pa·to·ry

Spelling: [ik-skuhl-puh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
IPA: /ɪkˈskʌl pəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/

Exculpatory is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 1039 anagrams from letters in exculpatory (aceloprtuxy).

Definitions for exculpatory

adjective

  1. tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.

Origin of exculpatory

First recorded in 1770-80; exculpate + -ory1

Examples for exculpatory

These two points are stated plainly in the "exculpatory word" prefixed to the reprint in 1868.

But the justice done to Edgar she gloried in, as an apology for her feelings, and exculpatory of her weakness.

None of that evidence is dispositive--but it is certainly not exculpatory either.

The outcry against Guarini on this occasion was so great that he found himself obliged to put forth an exculpatory statement.

By the way, more has happened this week on the exculpatory front.

The queen mother's exculpatory statements may be examined in Le Laboureur, Add.

That this, indeed, had been followed by an exculpatory declaration.

Jay, angered at the injustice of a reproof which belonged more especially to him, drew up an exculpatory statement.

Understanding the neurophysiology of the brain, therefore, would seem to be as exculpatory as finding a tumor in it.

All exculpatory arguments were futile against the fact itself.

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