For it would allow him to indulge in a bit of personal vindication.

Carol and Barrows mutually triumphed over each other, claiming personal vindication.

And it is a personal vindication for Alex Salmond.

For Michael Howard a better than expected result marks a personal vindication and certain reconfirmation as party leader.

Deplore it; but to condemn an Italian gentleman without hearing his personal vindication, is infamous; nay, it is Austrian.

The criticisms which followed vexed his righteous soul, and he patiently awaited the opportunity for public explanation and personal vindication.

But personal vindication imparts neither interest nor importance to history, while it necessarily detracts from its dignity and good faith.

Wednesday night's post-match gurning and chuckling in Turin showed he has lost none of his appetite for personal vindication and vindictiveness.

The campaign of 1828, indeed, had already begun: and it was to be a campaign of personal vindication as well as of popular rights.

If he survives and goes on to win next year, he will count it a huge personal vindication, justifying all the harm he has done.