vindicatory

Adjective

vindicatory (comparative more vindicatory, superlative most vindicatory)

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

   Synonyms:

   absolutory, disculpatory, exonerative, absolutionary, absolving, exculpatory, defensive, justificatory

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

   Synonyms:

   punitive, retributive, vindictive, castigatory, punishmental, punitory, retaliatory, retributionary, retributory