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词汇 exculpate
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Definition of exculpate in English:

exculpate

verb ˈɛkskʌlpeɪtˈɛkskəlˌpeɪt
[with object]formal
  • Show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing.

    〈正式〉证明(或断言)…无罪;为…开脱罪责

    the article exculpated the mayor

    那篇文章为市长开脱了罪责。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the striking features of both the first and second videos is the insistence with which [Child F] seeks to exculpate her, and the fact that she does so upon her own initiative.
    • It falls to this judge to search out and collect evidence, both that against the accused and the evidence exculpating him.
    • The right we say to be informed of distressing news, news of the death of a loved one, for example, does not exculpate the negligent driver in relation to the secondary consequences of his or her negligence.
    • ‘No one arranged my speech,’ he said, as if exculpating his colleagues from what he was about to say.
    • Providing an explanation of behavior in terms of understandable epistemological conditions or causes subtly strives to exculpate the agent.
    • An indictment is valid even if the grand jurors have no knowledge, in voting to indict, that evidence exists that would exculpate the defendant.
    • The Crown had to take that statement as a whole so that the version of facts that it contained at once implicated and tended to exculpate the appellant.
    • Yes, contrary to popular belief, often testing is used to exonerate or exculpate possible suspects rather than implicate.
    • The mother in her evidence tried hard to exculpate the father from any responsibility.
    • Is there any precedent of people being exculpated even though they have admitted they are guilty?
    • It is true that the personal and professional consequences for a doctor who is subject to civil proceedings may be severe, but why should the negligent be exculpated?
    • But, without exculpating him, his look of horror at the end of a husband-choosing elimination-dance is comprehensible.
    • This seemed to be an easy-to-resolve ambiguity, rather than anything that was going to exculpate anybody.
    • He also said he had consented to broad FBI searches in an attempt to exculpate himself from any anthrax charges.
    • Therefore it should not be possible for the director to exculpate himself by consent of the company.
    • But, your Honour, even if you put that to the side, our argument is that we have been oppressed, because we have been held responsible for the costs of the case when what we did was to successfully exculpate ourselves.
    • There was however conflict of authority on whether the co-accused is able to use the confession as evidence of truth, for example where the confession exculpates him.
    • For the CIA to try to pull this off - and to claim that there was nothing in the cables to exculpate my client - was manifestly untrue.
    • Two so-called ‘impunity laws’ passed in 1986 and 1987 exculpated lower-ranking officers and imposed a definitive date, called ‘final point’, after which the criminals of the dirty war could not be tried.
    Synonyms
    release, liberate, free, set free, let go, let out, allow to leave, let loose, set loose, turn loose

Derivatives

  • exculpation

  • noun ɛkskʌlˈpeɪʃ(ə)nˌɛkskəlˈpeɪʃ(ə)n
    formal
    • Where we disagree, then, is on the relative merit of before-the-fact permission and retroactive exculpation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, in this case, it was the applicant and not the prosecution that called the co-accused to give evidence suggesting his exculpation.
      • Certainly, lines of inquiry which may conduce to exculpation is one of the hallmarks of material to be disclosed.
      • Shunned as pariahs and labeled psychopaths, the PTSD category offered moral exculpation and access to compensation.
      • When I refer to ‘defence’ there, I mean it is an evidentiary burden cast on the accused which is in the nature of exculpation, justification or vindication.
  • exculpatory

  • adjective ɪksˈkʌlpət(ə)riˌɛksˈkəlpəˌtɔri
    formal
    • The plaintiff, in his affidavit, states that he believes there is exculpatory evidence in the possession of the various prosecuting defendants.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, since automatism is such a powerful exculpatory factor, the courts have attempted to circumscribe its use, defining it fairly narrowly and developing three major doctrines of limitation.
      • Defendants have a basic constitutional right of access to exculpatory witnesses in the government's custody, an integral part of the broader right to present a defense.
      • But a general promise of confidentiality unless their evidence is required for this purpose means that exculpatory evidence will normally be confidential while incriminating evidence will not.
      • A second reform would reward conspirators for giving exculpatory information.
      • It is primarily for the defence to look for and collect evidence aimed at refuting the charges (although if the Prosecutor finds exculpatory evidence, he is duty bound to disclose it to the defence).

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin exculpat- 'freed from blame', from the verb exculpare, from ex- 'out, from' + Latin culpa 'blame'.

Definition of exculpate in US English:

exculpate

verbˈekskəlˌpātˈɛkskəlˌpeɪt
[with object]formal
  • Show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing.

    〈正式〉证明(或断言)…无罪;为…开脱罪责

    the article exculpated the mayor

    那篇文章为市长开脱了罪责。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the CIA to try to pull this off - and to claim that there was nothing in the cables to exculpate my client - was manifestly untrue.
    • The right we say to be informed of distressing news, news of the death of a loved one, for example, does not exculpate the negligent driver in relation to the secondary consequences of his or her negligence.
    • One of the striking features of both the first and second videos is the insistence with which [Child F] seeks to exculpate her, and the fact that she does so upon her own initiative.
    • Two so-called ‘impunity laws’ passed in 1986 and 1987 exculpated lower-ranking officers and imposed a definitive date, called ‘final point’, after which the criminals of the dirty war could not be tried.
    • ‘No one arranged my speech,’ he said, as if exculpating his colleagues from what he was about to say.
    • It is true that the personal and professional consequences for a doctor who is subject to civil proceedings may be severe, but why should the negligent be exculpated?
    • Providing an explanation of behavior in terms of understandable epistemological conditions or causes subtly strives to exculpate the agent.
    • It falls to this judge to search out and collect evidence, both that against the accused and the evidence exculpating him.
    • This seemed to be an easy-to-resolve ambiguity, rather than anything that was going to exculpate anybody.
    • Yes, contrary to popular belief, often testing is used to exonerate or exculpate possible suspects rather than implicate.
    • But, without exculpating him, his look of horror at the end of a husband-choosing elimination-dance is comprehensible.
    • He also said he had consented to broad FBI searches in an attempt to exculpate himself from any anthrax charges.
    • The Crown had to take that statement as a whole so that the version of facts that it contained at once implicated and tended to exculpate the appellant.
    • There was however conflict of authority on whether the co-accused is able to use the confession as evidence of truth, for example where the confession exculpates him.
    • An indictment is valid even if the grand jurors have no knowledge, in voting to indict, that evidence exists that would exculpate the defendant.
    • The mother in her evidence tried hard to exculpate the father from any responsibility.
    • Therefore it should not be possible for the director to exculpate himself by consent of the company.
    • But, your Honour, even if you put that to the side, our argument is that we have been oppressed, because we have been held responsible for the costs of the case when what we did was to successfully exculpate ourselves.
    • Is there any precedent of people being exculpated even though they have admitted they are guilty?
    Synonyms
    release, liberate, free, set free, let go, let out, allow to leave, let loose, set loose, turn loose

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin exculpat- ‘freed from blame’, from the verb exculpare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + Latin culpa ‘blame’.

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