0 past simple and past participle of vindicate
1 to prove that what someone said or did was right or true, after other people thought it was wrong:
How can coercion, by definition a compromise of external freedom-that freedom, that is, ordinarily protected and vindicated by the doctrine of right-be compatible with right?
Such assessments would soon appear to be vindicated.
This position has since been vindicated in so far as few now call for a return to welfare as it operated before 1996.
This view is vindicated by the pessimistic interpretation of social choice that has just been described.
Norms and excellences seem to be vindicated by the good that they serve.
It may be that, given a more fully specified research design, the clash of civilizations thesis might be vindicated.
In fact, his argument seems vindicated in most industrial democracies for the last two decades.
The brothers' attitudes toward institutions could be quite instrumental, a point vindicated by the institutional track record of the two protagonists.
