exoneration

[Latin exoneratio, from exoneratus, pa. par. of exonero; Fr. exonération; Sp. exoneracion.] *1. The act of disburdening, freeing, or relieving from a burden; the state of being exonerated or relieved of a burden. 2. The act of relieving or clearing from blame, obligation, duty, . "The body is adapted unto eating, drinking, nutrition, and other ways of repletion and exoneration."Grew: Cosmologia Sacra , bk. iii., ch. iv. ěx-on-er-ā-tive, a. [English exonerat (e); -ive.] Tending to exonerate or relieve; exonerating.