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Webster 1913 Edition
Vindicatory
Vin′di-ca-to-ry
,Adj.
1.
Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
2.
Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.
The afflictions of Job were no
vindicatory
punishments to take vengeance of his sins. Abp. Bramhall.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vindicatory
VIN'DICATORY
,Adj.
1.
Punitory; inflicting punishment; avenging.The afflictions of Job were not vindicatory punishments.
2.
Tending to vindicate; justificatory.Definition 2024
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English
Adjective
vindicatory (comparative more vindicatory, superlative most vindicatory)
- Promoting or producing vindication.
- 1995, Douglas Vickers, The Tyranny of the Market, ISBN 9780472106189, p. 77:
- The principal vindicatory feature of the market system . . . rests in the fact that it permits and facilitates an intermarket and intersectoral flow of economic values.
- 1995, Douglas Vickers, The Tyranny of the Market, ISBN 9780472106189, p. 77:
- Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
- 1800, The Annual Register (1797), J. Dodsley (London), vol. 39, p. 486:
- To prevent the strong from oppressing the weak; to protect the acquisitions of industry . . . are duties which require that delegated authority should be exerted by public force and the vindicatory dispensations of pains and penalties.
- 1800, The Annual Register (1797), J. Dodsley (London), vol. 39, p. 486:
Synonyms
- (promoting or producing vindication): defensive, justificatory
- (promoting or producing retribution or punishment): punitive, retributive
Derived terms
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.