Definition of "vindicating" []

• Present participle of vindicate. (verb)

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• "Gonzales captured 60 percent of the 1,027 ballots cast in what he described as a vindicating win."
• "It is not without some mixture of mortification and regret, that I now look back on the number of hours which I have consumed, and the number of pages which I have filled, in vindicating my literary and moral character from the charge of wilful Misrepresentations, gross Errors, and servile Plagiarisms ..."
• "Pope Adrian I, in vindicating the veneration of images to Charlemagne, mentions this use of balm and defends it (Mansi, Concilia, XIII, 778)."