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Vindicatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Affording vindication; justifying.

adj. Exacting retribution; punitive.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Promoting or producing vindication.

adj. Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

adj. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tending to vindicate; justificatory.

Punitory; inflicting punishment; avenging.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts

adj. providing justification

adj. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution

Word Usage

"The acknowledging of this truth has a respect not only to the manifestation of his justice, but also of the wisdom, holiness, and dominion of God over his creatures: for that justice which, in respect of its effect and egress, we call vindicatory, which, as we have before demonstrated, is natural to"

Equivalent

just exculpatory punitive punitory

Form

vindicatorily

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

justificatory vindicative avenging punitory defensive