vindication

vindication 是“证明某人或某种说法是正确的、为其恢复清白或正当性”的行为或证据。

💡 记忆钩子

把一个人或一个观点先放在“被怀疑”的位置上，再用事实把它扶正：这个“扶正、证明无误”的过程叫 vindication，支持它的事实或论据也可以叫 vindication。

📝 学习建议

不要把 vindication 误解为“报复”；它强调的是证明自己正确、恢复名誉或证明某种说法有根据。
先掌握“某人的清白或判断得到证明”这一核心义，再理解它如何指支持某个主张的证据或论据。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 证明正确或恢复清白

📖 指证明某人没有错、没有罪，或证明某个决定和判断是正确的过程或结果；它常带有“原先被怀疑，后来得到证明”的意味。

💡 常用“a vindication of someone”或“vindication for someone”表示某人得到证明或恢复名誉，也可说“a vindication of a decision”。它通常用于正式叙述，尤其适合谈调查、审判、争议或后来发生的事实。不要只把它理解成“辩护”：辩护可以发生在证明之前，而 vindication 更强调最后确实证明了对方是对的或无辜的。

countable uncountable

The court's decision was a vindication of her judgment.

法院的裁决证明她的判断是正确的。

The discovery brought vindication to the scientist who had been criticized.

这项发现使那位曾受到批评的科学家恢复了名誉。
core 支持主张的证据或论据

📖 指事实、证据、陈述或论证本身，它们为某个主张、信念或做法提供依据，使其看起来合理或正确。

💡 常见结构是“provide vindication for + 主张或做法”以及“serve as a vindication of + 主张或做法”。这里的 vindication 可以指一组具体证据，但仍然强调这些证据让原先受到质疑的观点得到支持。它比普通的“理由”更正式，也通常带有“证明其确实站得住脚”的意味。

countable uncountable

The new data provided vindication for the team's original theory.

新数据为这个团队最初的理论提供了有力支持。

vindications plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 2 组

the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.

同义词集: vindication exoneration

friends provided a vindication of his position

上位: clearing 下位: justification, rehabilitation

the justification for some act or belief

同义词集: defense defence vindication

he offered a persuasive defense of the theory

上位: justification 下位: alibi, apologia, apology, exculpation, excuse, self-justification

🌳 词源

源自 vindicate，加名词后缀 -ion；vindicate 原本有“证明……正确、为……辩护”的意思。

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).

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vindications plural

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