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Vindicatory adj.

Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.

Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. "The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins."

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Etymology of 'Vindicatory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vindicatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... implying a doctrine that an alliance of a subject with a branch of the royal family is dishonorable to the crown—a doctrine which he denounced as "an oblique insult" to the whole people, and which, as such, "the representatives of the people were bound to oppose." And he also objected to the "vindicatory part," as he termed the clause which declared those who might assist, or even be present, at a marriage contracted without the royal permission guilty ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... 18th of Jan. he was taken to the grass-market of Edinburgh, and the sentence put in execution. In the morning he delivered some copies of what he had to say, if permitted, at his death; but not having liberty to deliver this part of his vindicatory speech to the people, he threw it over the scaffold, the substance of which ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... realise one's expectation of a famous lioness. With her I have since broken a lance in the interest of Byron, whom I considered maligned in the matter of his "sweet sister," and accordingly wrote on his behalf a vindicatory fly-leaf of poetic indignation. Another lance, too, have I broken in favour of Ouida, as against a newspaper critic who had tried to crush her "Moths;" I had met her before that, and did my little best in her defence, receiving from her from Italy a charming letter of acknowledgment. "Ouida" ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper