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vindication

noun
/ˌvɪndɪˈkeɪʃn̩/UK/ˌvɪndəˈkeɪʃən/US

Etymology

From Late Middle English vendicacion, vyndicacion, vyndycacion (“assertion of a claim”), from Old French vindication (“revenge, vengeance”) (modern dialectal French vindication), or from Medieval Latin vendicātio, both from Latin vindicātiō (“avenging; defence, protection, vindication; punishment; etc.”), from vindicō (“to avenge; to take revenge on; to protect from; etc.”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns from verbs, denoting processes, actions, or results of actions). Vindicō is derived from vindex (“claimant, vindicator; defender, protector”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); and vindex from vim (the accusative singular form of vīs (“force; power, strength; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue; to persecute; to suppress”)) + dīcere (the present active infinitive of dīcō (“to declare, state; to refer to; to say, talk; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out, show”)). By surface analysis, vindicate + -ion (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result).

  1. derived from *deyḱ-✻ — “to point out, show”
  2. derived from *weyh₁-✻ — “to chase, pursue; to persecute; to suppress”
  3. derived from vindicātiō — “avenging; defence, protection, vindication; punishment; etc.”
  4. derived from vendicātio
  5. derived from vindication — “revenge, vengeance”
  6. inherited from vendicacion

Definitions

  1. An act of asserting or maintaining

    An act of asserting or maintaining; an assertion.

    • [T]he loud "Aye, Aye" of the bulk of the members [of Parliament] supported [John] Eliot in his last vindication of English liberty.

  2. An argument, fact, piece of evidence, etc., which vindicates (“clears someone of an…

    An argument, fact, piece of evidence, etc., which vindicates (“clears someone of an accusation or suspicion; justifies a belief or claim by providing evidence or proof”).

  3. The action of vindicating

    The action of vindicating; also, the state of being vindicated.

    • These are the reasons which I have gathered from philosophy and nature; to which I can add other circumstances in vindication of the account of this learned body who publish this almanack.
    • [H]e was satisfied that Alice yet lived; he hoped she might yet escape and return. […] He enriched Mrs. Jones for life, in gratitude for her vindication of his lost and early love: he promised the amplest rewards for the smallest clue.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A legal claim for a declaration that one is the owner of a thing or the holder of a right

      A legal claim for a declaration that one is the owner of a thing or the holder of a right; an action in rem.

      • Coordinate term: condiction
      • [T]here also lies against them the action whereby we claim a thing as ours. Actions in rem are called vindications; while those in which we contend that something ought to be given to or done for us are called condictions.

    2. The action of avenging or taking revenge.

    3. The action of setting free

      The action of setting free; deliverance.

    4. Punishment, retribution.

      • [T]hings carried ſo farre on in a vvrong vvay, muſt needs either inſlave themſelves and poſterity for ever, or require a vindication ſo ſharpe and ſmarting, as that the Nation vvould groane under it; […]

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Derived

counter-vindication, nonvindication, revindication, vindicat.

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vindication. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA