exoneration

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Latin exonerātiō. By surface analysis, exonerate + -ion.

What I am doing may explain to your satisfaction just how your handkerchief came here and bring about the very thing I suppose you want--exoneration." — The problem of Cell 13, Jacques Futrelle
To refuse, to have pleaded exoneration from this solemn duty, would have been fatal, for a Boer general is expected, amongst other things, to conduct all proceedings of a religious character. — My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, Ben J. (Ben Johannis) Viljoen
Consider them through all actions and occupations, of their lives: as when they eat, and when they sleep: when they are in the act of necessary exoneration, and when in the act of lust. — Meditations, Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

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