Acquittal: Definition and part of speech

Acquittal

  1. n. A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court.
  2. n. The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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