acquittal (noun)
101freedom — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Personal liberty Nouns 1. freedom, liberty, independence; self government or determination; license, permission; facility; immunity, exemption; release, parole, probation, discharge; civil liberties,… …
102innocence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of guilt Nouns 1. innocence, guiltlessness, blamelessness, incorruption, impeccability, clean bill of health, clean hands, clean slate; benefit of the doubt; purity, virtue, virginity, chastity;… …
103liberation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Setting free Nouns 1. liberation, emancipation, enfranchisement, manumission, freeing; Emancipation Proclamation; escape, freedom, liberty; deliverance, extrication, release, riddance; rescue, ransom;… …
104observance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. performance, compliance, adhesion, obedience; fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge; acquittance, acquittal; acknowledgment; fidelity, orthodoxy, ceremony, rite, punctilio, protocol. See attention,… …
105quittance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. acquittal, freedom; receipt, quitclaim, relinquish ment; retaliation, vindication, atonement; payment, recompense. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Something to make up for loss or damage: amends,… …
106remission — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. annulment, cancellation; pardon, forgiveness; suspension, respite, abatement. See payment. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An alleviation] Syn. abatement, lessening, release; see reduction 1 , relief 1 . 2.… …
107respite — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. postponement, pause, reprieve, cessation, intermission. See lateness, repose. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. reprieve, suspension, commutation, postponement, pause, interval, stop, intermission, recess, rest …
108justification — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. excuse, defense, pretext, reason, argument, palliation, extenuation, vindication, redemption, approval, validation, warrant, response, exoneration, exculpation, mitigation, explanation, rationalization, rationale, reply,… …
109exculpation — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A freeing or clearing from accusation or guilt: exoneration, vindication. Law: acquittal. See LAW …
110compurgation — [ˌkɒmpə: geɪʃ(ə)n] noun Law, historical acquittal from a charge or accusation obtained by statements of innocence given by witnesses under oath. Origin C17: from med. L. compurgatio(n ), from L. compurgare, from com (expressing intensive force) + …
