The word 'exculpated' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It means to clear someone of blame or fault. Example: "After thorough investigation, the suspect was exculpated of all charges due to lack of evidence."
The New York-based Innocence Project, which provides free legal representation to people who it hopes can be exculpated on the basis of DNA evidence, counts no fewer than 268 such exonerations since 1989.
He cannot be wholly exculpated of responsibility for the excesses of the Star Chamber, but he was respected by the majority of his contemporaries and, as lord keeper, tried to remove many of the abuses of the court of chancery.
The German government publicly exculpated her in 1930, and the French dossier documenting her activities reportedly indicated her innocence.
Such evenhanded sentiments, along with the abstraction of the terms of analysis that exculpated individuals while blaming the system, were both appealing and prescriptive.
The last trial was, in many ways, the most astonishing, because it came four years after new DNA evidence had exculpated Rivera.
Pacifiers have been the subject of recurring panics over the last century—and they have been exculpated pretty much every time.
Besides exculpating Turner, Mr Ramsey also exposes several persistent myths: there were no heavy munitions, no devastating second explosion (rifle rounds were found to burn harmlessly like fire-crackers, and not detonate), no Canadian troops and no British plot to sacrifice a ship to bring America to war.Diana Preston takes a more personal approach.
But that does not exculpate the perpetrators of last week's onslaught, just as the Versailles treaty does not excuse Auschwitz: whatever their grievances, nothing could excuse an attack of such ferocity and size.
Philanthropy no more canonises the good businessman than it exculpates the bad.
Despite efforts by loyal disciples like Ernest Jones to exculpate Freud from blame, subsequent research concerning his relations with former disciples like Viktor Tausk have clouded the picture considerably.
Boniface VIII's personal failings, however, can in no way exculpate Philip IV the Fair and his ministers, who used forgery, defamation, intimidation, and finally violence against the Pope.
