What is "vindicatory" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does vindicatory mean in English? Meaning of vindicatory definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "vindicatory" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "vindicatory": of or relating to or having the nature of retribution

Adjective

  • Meaning: of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
  • Example: retributive justice demands an eye for an eye
  • Synonyms: relatiative retaliatory retributive retributory vindicatory
  • Similar: punitive punitory
  • Meaning of "vindicatory": given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts

    Adjective

  • Meaning: given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
  • Example: retributive justice
  • Synonyms: retributive retributory vindicatory
  • Similar: just
  • Meaning of "vindicatory": providing justification

    Adjective

  • Meaning: providing justification
  • Synonyms: justificative justificatory vindicatory
  • Similar: exculpatory
  • Adjective: 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: 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.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: 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.
  • Synonyms:

    all right, defensible, explainable, fair, forgivable, justifiable, minor, moderate, okay, pardonable, passable, permissible, plausible, reasonable, slight, specious, temperate, tenable, trivial, understandable, venial, condonable, exculpatory, not too bad, remittable, reprievable, vindicable, warrantable, within limits,

    Antonyms:

    inexcusable, unforgivable, unjustifiable, unallowable, blameable,

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    vindicatory in English: vindicatory
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