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English
Etymology
From vindicate + -ory.
Adjective
vindicatory (comparative more vindicatory, superlative most vindicatory)
- Promoting or producing vindication.
1995, Douglas Vickers, The Tyranny of the Market, →ISBN, page 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, volume 39, London: J. Dodsley, published 1797, page 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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References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.