Word Meanings - VINDICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of

Additional info about word: VINDICATION

The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete. Occasion for the vindication of this passage in my book. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VINDICATION)

• Answer
• Reply
• response
• counter-argument
• confutation
• acceptance
• tally
• counterpart
• solution
• vindication
• apology
• exculpation
• defense
• rejoinder
• repartee
• retort
• Apology
• Defense
• justification
• plea
• excuse
• acknowledgment
• confession
• Claim
• Assertion
• pretension
• title
• right
• privilege
• arrogation
• demand
• Resistance
• protection
• rampart
• bulwark
• shelter
• guard
• Justification
• Vindication
• defence
• advocacy
• maintenance
• exoneration

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VINDICATION)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Ignore
• drop
• pretermit
• pass
• disregard
• Expose
• betray
• imperil
• endanger

Related words: (words related to VINDICATION)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE
• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• TALLYHO
  1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• NONSOLUTION
  Failure of solution or explanation.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.