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ACQUITTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless
Example:
the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity
Synonyms:
acquitted; not guilty
Classified under:
Similar:
clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb acquit
Context examples:
She is to be tried today, and I hope, I sincerely hope, that she will be acquitted.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Willoughby, poor Willoughby, as she now allowed herself to call him, was constantly in her thoughts; she would not but have heard his vindication for the world, and now blamed, now acquitted herself for having judged him so harshly before.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She could not but own that she should be very glad of a little tea, and Susan immediately set about making it, as if pleased to have the employment all to herself; and with only a little unnecessary bustle, and some few injudicious attempts at keeping her brothers in better order than she could, acquitted herself very well.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
What charade Colonel Dent and his party played, what word they chose, how they acquitted themselves, I no longer remember; but I still see the consultation which followed each scene: I see Mr. Rochester turn to Miss Ingram, and Miss Ingram to him; I see her incline her head towards him, till the jetty curls almost touch his shoulder and wave against his cheek; I hear their mutual whisperings; I recall their interchanged glances; and something even of the feeling roused by the spectacle returns in memory at this moment.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
