disculpation

noun

disculpation

noun

Etymology Compare French disculpation.

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exculpation

This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty.1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents:

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