Word Meanings - ACQUITTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACQUITTAL)

• Reprieve
• Respite
• acquittal
• suspension
• delay
• interval
• pardon
• amnesty
• intermission

Related words: (words related to ACQUITTAL)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• INTERMISSION
  The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. 4. Intervention; interposition. Heylin. Syn. --
• PARDONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.
• ACQUITTAL
  A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
• SUSPENSION
  A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. (more info) 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended;
• DELAY
  A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more
• INTERVAL; INTERVALE
  A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. The woody intervale just beyond
• PARDONER
  1. One who pardons. Shak. 2. A seller of indulgences. Chaucer.
• PARDONING
  Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.
• RESPITELESS
  Without respite. Baxter.
• AMNESTY
  1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion. 2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
• RESPITE
  1. A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. I crave but four day's respite. Shak. 2. Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. "Without more respite." Chaucer. Some
• PARDONABLY
  In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden.
• DELAYER
  One who delays; one who lingers.
• REPRIEVE
  reprover to blame, reproach, condemn , F. réprouver to disapprove, fr. L. reprobare to reject, condemn; pref. re- re- + probare to try, prove. See Prove, and cf. Reprove, 1. To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on;
• DELAYINGLY
  By delays. Tennyson.
• PARDONABLE
  Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
• PARDON; REMISSION
  -- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life
• UNPARDONABLE
  Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.
• UNINTERMISSION
  Want or failure of intermission. Bp. Parker.
• IMPARDONABLE
  Unpardonable. South.
• ROUNDELAY
  See ROUNDEL