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形容詞

vindicatory (comparative more vindicatory, superlative most vindicatory)

1. Promoting or producing vindication.
   • 1995, Douglas Vickers, The Tyranny of the Market, ISBN 9780472106189, p. 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.

2. Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
   • 1800, The Annual Register (1797), J. Dodsley (London), vol. 39, p. 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.

同意語

• (promoting または producing vindication): defensive, justificatory
• (promoting または producing retribution または punishment): punitive, retributive

派生語

• vindicatorily

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.