0 to prove that what someone said or did was right or true, after other people thought it was wrong:
1 to show something to have been right or true, or to show someone to be free from guilt or blame:
The decision to include Morris on the team was vindicated when he scored three touchdowns.
Figure 2 vindicates these theoretical expectations, summarizing district-level estimates of coalition sticking by party and coalition.
The decisions of the riksdag to endorse or initiate the extension of royal authority, at the expense of the high nobility, had been triumphantly vindicated.
If this means that all evaluative considerations are not genuinely evaluative, then legal positivism is vindicated.
A common-wealth and common-wealthsmen asserted and vindicated (1659), pp. 3-4.
Whose grievance is vindicated by punishing these actors?
Their ' superstition ' is vindicated as preferable to that of the philosophes.
Such a success would seem to have vindicated the bloc's claims of fraud during the 1932 election.
At every moment for the rest of eternity there will be sin that has not been expiated, wrongs that have not been vindicated.
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