A person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution

Usage examples of vindicator.

Assuming that Brye was the Vindicator, Bland had recognized that Vreekill Castle might have a secret way of entry.

Whiskaway, his study of the Hudson River chart, had all resulted in the episode which caused him to denounce Brye as the Vindicator and come to a prompt doom.

Still, Trigger had come to the same conclusion as Bland: that Brye was the Vindicator.

From what Margaret had testified, it was evident that Dana Brye, if actually alive, would logically be the Vindicator.

There were the two Vindicators, their drive coronas now flaming violently in the opposite direction as they attempted to brake from their mad charge.

Upon these they conversed day after day, as they sat on the porch at the store door, and night after night the discussions warmed, as the brandied flush crept over cheek and brow of the staunch vindicators of their different party chiefs.

Among others, to show the whimsicality of their deadly seriousness, may be mentioned the following: The Bleeding Hearts, Sons of the Morning, the Morning Stars, the Flamingoes, The Triple Triangles, The Three Bars, the Rubonics, the Vindicators, The Comanches, and The Erebusites.

They were called the defenders of the republic, the vindicators of the City and sovereignty of Rome.