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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

... 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

Words linked to "Vindicatory" : punitive, retributory, vindicate, justificative, just, justificatory, retaliatory, retributive, relatiative, punitory