Vindicatorily

She spoke not angrily, but haughtily — not vindictively, but vindicatorily."

...He has been shamefully wronged since his death." Thus vindicatorily of his friend spoke the just and kind Geoffrey Crayon a day or two since; and we are glad to record it while the dark wing of the poet's renown is uppermost.

Not necessarily because he had put himself out of relation with a fixed and central truth — she explained self-vindicatorily — but because he had lost that anchorage which prevents excessive thinking.