0 present participle of vindicate
1 to prove that what someone said or did was right or true, after other people thought it was wrong:
His anger imparted his acute sense of betrayal and the necessity of vindicating his maturity.
Why would a reviewing court ever make reference to features of the litigant's own situation, if the court were not vindicating "personal" rights?
Hurford presents himself as vindicating the semantic assumptions of logicians (as to the primacy of predication) and offering insights into the evolution of language (and particularly, reference).
The costs of vindicating the wrong are a necessary and essential part of the wrong.
As he said in his speech last night, he took a particular pride in vindicating his honour.
Our law has been woefully defective in vindicating the children's right in the realm of property.
An innocent man brought to trial and given an opportunity of vindicating his character and triumphantly acquitted—that is not an outrage.
My suggestion is that he cannot go on vindicating the law in this way much longer.
