• Vindicatory

    Origin

    vindicate + -ory

    Full definition of vindicatory

    Adjective

    vindicatory

    1. 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.
    2. 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.

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