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English
Etymology
vindicate + -or
Noun
vindicator (plural vindicators)
- a person who vindicates.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , published 1842, →OCLC, page 251:Little thought the good-natured vindicator of Lady Anne's offspring (to all of whom he was sincerely attached) that he had drawn upon one that which she held to be the great misfortune of her life a short time afterwards.
Latin
Etymology 1
From vindicō + -tor.
Noun
vindicātor m (genitive vindicātōris); third declension
- (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) avenger, vindicator
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb forms.
Verb
vindicātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of vindicō
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