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Definition of Acquiting
1. acquite [v] - See also: acquite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquiting
Literary usage of Acquiting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1826)
"... and suppress the Book, he therefore hop'd he should not pass unpunished in
this Court: yet the Court acquiting him, the Bp stood up again in a Fury, ..."
2. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1875)
"D'r Sir, pations and perseverence in doing your duty and acquiting a good
Conscience, will give ample satisfaction. Any reproach your enemys have ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1822)
"From Mr. Fell's school he removed to another kept by Mr. Aird, for the purpose
of acquiting a knowledge of land-surveying, a profession he intended to ..."
4. The Writings of James Monroe: Including a Collection of His Public and by James Monroe (1899)
"But in this they were mistaken; for all those troops behaved with great bravery
and intrepidity, acquiting themselves as they had done before on the Rhine; ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1840)
"The jury having retired for about half an hour, returned into court acquiting
the prisoner on the indictment for murder, and finding him Guilty of ..."
6. The Psalms and Hymns: With the Catechism, Confession of Faith and Liturgy of by Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston (1814)
"... anJ to the poor grateful hearts towards those, who help and serve them; to
the end that every one acquiting himself of his duty, thy holy name may ..."
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