How do you use the word "vindication" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "vindication" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "vindication": His enemy's failure in business was the ultimate vindication. Many Jews see the pogroms happening around the world as a vindication of Zionism.

Vindication Meaning

/ˌvɪndɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated.

nounAn act of asserting or maintaining; an assertion.

Sentence Examples

His enemy's failure in business was the ultimate vindication.

Many Jews see the pogroms happening around the world as a vindication of Zionism.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

defense defence

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The DNA test provided complete ____, showing that the suspect was not guilty.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The success of the project was a complete ____ of the manager's strategy, which had originally been criticized by many today.

Word Origin & History

From Late Middle English vendicacion, vyndicacion, vyndycacion (“assertion of a claim”), from Old French vindication (“revenge, vengeance”) (modern dialectal French vindication), or from Medieval Latin vendicātio, both from Latin vindicātiō (“avenging; defence, protection, vindication; punishment; etc.”), from vindicō (“to avenge; to take revenge on; to protect from; etc.”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns from verbs, denoting processes, actions, or results of actions). Vindicō is derived from vindex (“claimant, vindicator; defender, protector”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); and vindex from vim (the accusative singular form of vīs (“force; power, strength; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue; to persecute; to suppress”)) + dīcere (the present active infinitive of dīcō (“to declare, state; to refer to; to say, talk; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out, show”)). By surface analysis, vindicate + -ion (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[T]he loud "Aye, Aye" of the bulk of the members [of Parliament] supported [John] Eliot in his last vindication of English liberty." — 1874, J[ohn] R[ichard] Green, “Puritan England”, in A Short History of the English People, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, section III (The King and the Parliament. 1623–1629.), pages 489–490:

"The Soldiers publiſh'd a vindication, as they call'd it, of their Proceedings and Reſolutions, and directed it to their General; in vvhich they complain'd of a deſign to disband, and nevv model the Army; […] This Apology, or Vindication, being ſign'd by many inferior Officers, the Parliament declared them to be Enemies of the State; and cauſed ſome of them vvho talked loudeſt, to be impriſon'd." — 1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, book X, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], volume III, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, page 34:

"The great vindication of evil is, that (constituted as we are) we could not know so much joy, nor manifest so much virtue without it; and certainly, in instances like these, it fetches out, under circumstances of the extremest weakness, the most beautiful strength of the human heart." — 1844 January–December, Leigh Hunt, “Return to Sicily and Mount Ætna”, in A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 134:

"Among its [Milan's] Natural Curioſities I took particular notice of a Piece of Crystal, that enclos'd a couple of Drops, vvhich look'd like VVater vvhen they vvere ſhaken, tho' perhaps they are nothing but Bubbles of Air. […] The Famous Pere [Jean] Mabillon is novv engag'd in the Vindication of this Tear, vvhich a learned Eccleſiaſtic, in the Neighbourhood of Vendome, vvould have ſuppreſs'd, as a Falſe and ridiculous Relick, […]" — 1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Pavia, Milan, &c.”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 37:

"These are the reasons which I have gathered from philosophy and nature; to which I can add other circumstances in vindication of the account of this learned body who publish this almanack." — 1709 July 19 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele], “Friday, July 9, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 39; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC, page 238:

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