{"id":477854,"date":"2026-05-19T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/vindicate-definition-meaning-merriam-webster\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:25:00","slug":"vindicate-definition-meaning-merriam-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/vindicate-definition-meaning-merriam-webster\/","title":{"rendered":"VINDICATE Definition &amp; Meaning &#8211; Merriam-Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vindicate, which has been used in English since at least the mid-16th century, comes from a form of the Latin verb vindicare, meaning \u201cto set free, avenge, or lay claim to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/vindicate\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/vindicate<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vindicate, which has been used in English since at least the mid-16th century, comes from a form of the Latin verb vindicare, meaning \u201cto set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kunsthaus-zurich-en","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}