;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.
Come join us. Ride the wave!
I was leaning toward “repudiation” and “schadenfreude,” myself.
But, vindication is good, too.
Ve Vin! Does that vin dictate changes in DC?
Or does they continue to GROPe their to defeat?
Those are excellent words as well.
Cuomo squeaked it out in NY. Dang.
Veni, vidi, vici, vindicate.
The Senate turnover did vindicate
And the mid-term results also indicate-
That voters are fed up
With this sonOfapup,
And the cronies who’re part of his “syndicate” ...
Wipeout, indeed!
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Nice!
54-41. Squeaked?
While Obama was yearning for vindication
Voters were planning his lameduck vacation.
Sick of his schtick
They cut off he is dick
Now watch him whine about his castration.
Just over 50%, if it’s the usual dead voters he was defeatable. We should have tried harder.
” From You let my vindication come...”
Psalm 16, Orthodox Reader’s service (or service of the Third Hour before Divine Liturgy).
I served as the Reader last Sunday at Divine Liturgy. So that use of “vindication” was the first to come to mind, not the Republican takeover of the Senate!
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I really loved it!
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I’m quite familiar with the service. Wife is Eastern Orthodox.
We were married in the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
SB2U VOUGHT VINDICATOR
Any relation to vindaloo?
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