🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

justificação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhoos-ti-fi-kah-sao

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vindication/ˌvɪn.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O sucesso dela foi uma justificação de suas ideias."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of clearing someone of blame or suspicion.

    "The evidence presented in court served as a vindication of his innocence."
  2. 2

    A justification or defense of something.

    "Her successful project was a vindication of her innovative ideas."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'vindication' originates from the Latin 'vindicare', meaning 'to claim, avenge, or set free'. It evolved through Old French 'vindicacion', which retained the sense of justification or defense, particularly in legal contexts, before entering Middle English.

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