Exonerative
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 1 providing absolution wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From exonerate + -ive.
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