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disblame

disblame verb: to free from blame; to excuse.

Verb

disblame (third-person singular simple present disblames, present participle disblaming, simple past and past participle disblamed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To free from blame; to excuse.
    • But if anything may disblame me, it is the example of this age, wherein in most countries the same is done upon surmised necessity to disabuse heretics.1881, Henry Fitz-Simon, Edmund Hogan, Words of Comfort to Persecuted Catholics, page 76
    • For hadst thou likewise been my foe, thou wouldst not have come so soon to ray hands, unless thou hadst come to disblame and excuse thy doings.1900, The Tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea., Routledge, page 103

Noun

disblame (uncountable)

  1. A freeing from blame.
    • For, ' quod ille maledictum vehemens existimat laudem ego duco maximam, — his greatest dispraise is my desired disblame.'1865-1968, John F. Fowler, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 274

Forms of disblame

third-person singular presentdisblames
present participledisblaming
past participledisblamed
pastdisblamed

Questions about disblame

What does disblame mean?
Disblame means to free from blame; to excuse.
What part of speech is disblame?
Disblame can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of disblame?
The past tense of disblame is disblamed.

Words near disblame in the dictionary

  1. disbenefits
  2. disbent
  3. disbind
  4. disbinding
  5. disbinds
  6. disblame
  7. disblamed
  8. disblames
  9. disblaming
  10. disbloomed
  11. disbodied

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