—­ vindication and advocacy together?? —­

     #937.  Vindication. —­ N. vindication, justification, warrant;
exoneration, exculpation; acquittal &c. 970; whitewashing.
     extenuation; palliation, palliative; softening, mitigation.
     reply, defense; recrimination &c 938.
     apology, gloss, varnish; plea &c. 617; salvo; excuse, extenuating
circumstances; allowance, allowance to be made; locus paenitentiae[Lat].
     apologist, vindicator, justifier; defendant &c. 938.
     justifiable charge, true bill.
     v. justify, warrant; be an excuse &c. n.for; lend a color, furnish a
handle; vindicate; exculpate, disculpate[obs3]; acquit &c. 970; clear, set right, exonerate, whitewash; clear the skirts of.
     extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze;
put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.
     advocate, defend, plead one’s cause; stand up for, stick up for, speak
up for; contend for, speak for; bear out, keep in countenance, support; plead &c, 617; say in defense; plead ignorance; confess and avoid, propugn[obs3], put in a good word for.
     take the will for the deed, make allowance for, give credit for, do
justice to; give one his due, give the Devil his due.
     make good; prove the truth of, prove one’s case; be justified by the
event. 
     Adj. vindicated, vindicating &c v.; exculpatory; apologetic.
     excusable, defensible, pardonable; venial, veniable[obs3]; specious,
plausible, justifiable. 
     Phr. “honi sot qui mal y pense”; “good wine needs no bush.”

     #938.  Accusation. —­ N. accusation, charge, imputation, slur,
inculpation, exprobration[obs3], delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination[obs3], recrimination; tu quoque argument[Lat]; invective &c. 932.
     denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment;
impeachment, appeachment[obs3]; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit &c. 969; condemnation &c. 971.
     gravamen of a charge, head and front of one’s offending, argumentum ad
hominem[Lat]; scandal &c. (detraction) 934; scandalum magnatum[Lat].
     accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff; relator, informer; appellant.
     accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent;
litigant. 
     V. accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach.
     brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur
on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account &c. (censure) 932; take to blame, take to task; put in the black book.
     inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach[obs3];
have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against &c. 969; blow upon.
     charge with, saddle with; lay to one’s door, lay charge; lay the blame
on, bring home to; cast in one’s teeth, throw