The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vindicatory \Vin"di*ca*to*ry\, a.
Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
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Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.
The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins.
--Abp. Bramhall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "serving to justify, tending to vindicate;" 1650s, "avenging," from vindicate + -ory.
Wiktionary
a. 1 promote or producing vindication. 2 Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" [syn: retaliatory, relatiative, retributive, retributory]
given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice" [syn: retributive, retributory]
providing justification [syn: justificative, justificatory]
Usage examples of "vindicatory".
All this evidence he brought together in a vindicatory pamphlet, which, however, by the time he had completed it he decided not to publish.