vindicatory
adjEtymology From vindicate + -ory.
1
Promoting or producing vindication.
- 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, page 77:
2
Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
- 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, volume 39, London: J. Dodsley, published 1797, page 486:
- Derived terms
- vindicatorily