Exonerate vs Excuse - What's the difference?
exonerate | excuse | Related terms |
To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
(obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
To free from accusation or blame.
To forgive; to pardon.
* Shakespeare
* Archbishop Sharp
To allow to leave.
To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
* Bible, 2. Corinthians xii. 19
An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment.
(legal) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
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In transitive terms the difference between exonerate and excuse
is that exonerate is to free from accusation or blame while excuse is to provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.As verbs the difference between exonerate and excuse
is that exonerate is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load) while excuse is to forgive; to pardon.As a noun excuse is
an explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment.exonerate
English
Verb
(exonerat)- I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?
Synonyms
* (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----excuse
English
Verb
(excus)- I excused him his transgressions.
- I must excuse what cannot be amended.
- A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practising it, if really and indeed it be against God's law.
- May I be excused from the table?
- I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard.
- You know he shouldn't have done it, so don't try to excuse his behavior!
- Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you?
Synonyms
* forgive, let off the hook, let pass, pardon, unguiltDerived terms
* excuse me * excuse my FrenchNoun
(en noun)- Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses !
- That thing is a poor excuse for a gingerbread man. Hasn't anyone taught you how to bake?
- He's a sorry excuse of a doctor.
