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Exonerative

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    exonerating; tending to exonerate.

    "Journalist Radley Balko has coined the term “exonerative tense” for […] language structures [specifically designed to diminish the central, active role of police officers in the killings] to highlight their apparent aim of dampening negative judgments about the appropriateness of the officers’ actions."

Adjective
  1. 1
    providing absolution wordnet

Etymology

From exonerate + -ive.

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