Vindicatory

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Promoting or producing vindication.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    providing justification wordnet
  2. 2
    given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts wordnet
  3. 3
    of or relating to or having the nature of retribution wordnet

Synonyms

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apologeticdefensivedefensiveexculpatoryextenuatingimplacable

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From vindicate + -ory.

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