To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exonerate.
He […] endeavoured to disculpate the youth, and left no method untried to soften the tyrant's rage.
Borrowed from Medieval Latin disculpātus, perfect passive participle of disculpō (“to disculpate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dis- (“off”, denoting the ending of an action) + culpō (“to bl...
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