Posted on 11/05/2014 5:29:10 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, November 5, 2014-- vindication
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
vindication [vin-di-key-shuh n]
noun
1. the act of vindicating.
2. the state of being vindicated.
3. defense; excuse; justification:
Poverty was a vindication for his thievery.
4. something that vindicates: Subsequent events were her vindication.
vindicate [vin-di-keyt]
verb (used with object), vindicated, vindicating.
1. to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
2. to afford justification for; justify:
Subsequent events vindicated his policy.
3. to uphold or justify by argument or evidence: to vindicate a claim.
4. to assert, maintain, or defend (a right, cause, etc.) against opposition.
5. to claim for oneself or another.
6. Roman and Civil Law. to regain possession, under claim of title of property through legal procedure, or to assert one's right to possession.
7. to get revenge for; avenge.
8. Obsolete. to deliver from; liberate.
9. Obsolete. to punish.
Origin: 1525-35; < Latin vindicātus (past participle of vindicāre to lay legal claim to (property), to free (someone) from servitude (by claiming him as free), to protect, avenge, punish), equivalent to vindic- (stem of vindex claimant, protector, avenger) + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
nonvindication, noun
revindication, noun
self-vindication, noun
vindicator, noun
revindicate, verb (used with object), revindicated, revindicating.
self-vindicated, adjective
self-vindicating, adjective
unvindicated, adjective
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Election Results, 2014: An indication of vindication.
Wow - that is amazing!
Libs are like cockroaches. They never really go away.
A++++
Excellent! Then again, we sure have a lot to work with. :)
I love how they are called all of them flawed candidates, now that they have lost. It was a flawed platform from a flawed ideology that did them in.
How did are get in that sentence? Typing faster than I can read obviously.
Thank you!
Are you listening to bammer??? He must really have been advised that he is in the crapper if he doesn’t change his tune - he is praising republicans. lol but he just claimed congress passed a budget earlier this year? That isn’t right is it?
I cannot listen to him. Even if he were announcing the PowerBall numbers and I had every one. I’ll read the transcript
Later.
He is looking forward to working with us.... lol
If you consider continuing resolutions to be budgets.
Not a damn person in his audience disputed his statement - just a lie. talking immigration - claiming he doesn’t want to use exec order but will if repubs don’t do something
Great. We need Cruz as majority leader.
Agreed. wow - Jonathan Carl (not sure of spelling) - just said pres has only met with Boehner a few times in 6 years. He did NOT like that question
Huh. No reason to meet now, either. Obama is irrelevant.
As much as Obama hates Boehner, he would hate Cruz more. I want Gowdy and Cruz. Boehner and McConnell can step aside.
When dems win, it’s a mandate. When we win, we must compromise. (My new tag line.)
Excellent
I agree
To quote Obama, WE WON.
Wonderful!
That whole Psalm seems appropriate somehow, with all that the “gays”, obamacrats, and muslims have been doing to us this election cycle, and all the persecution and war visited on our Orthodox Brothers and Sisters in so many parts of the world.
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