vindicatory
/'vindikətəri/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Providing justification or defense: Serving to vindicate, justify, or clear from blame or suspicion.
- Inflicted as deserved punishment; retributive: Given or administered in requital according to merits or deserts, especially in a legal or moral context.
Usage Examples
- Providing justification:
- The lawyer presented a vindicatory argument that proved his client's innocence.
- The new evidence was entirely vindicatory, clearing her name of all accusations.
- Retributive; relating to deserved punishment:
- The court's sentence was seen as a vindicatory measure for the victims' suffering.
- Some legal systems have a strong vindicatory element, focusing on just deserts for crimes.
Advanced Usage
- In legal/philosophical discourse: Often used to describe principles of justice that focus on rightful punishment or exoneration.
- The philosopher argued for a vindicatory theory of justice over a purely utilitarian one.
- Formal or literary tone: The word is more common in formal, legal, or academic writing than in everyday conversation.
Variants and Related Words
- Vindicate (verb): To clear of blame or suspicion; to justify or prove the worth of.
- The investigation vindicated the official.
- Vindication (noun): The act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated.
- She felt a profound sense of vindication after the verdict.
- Retributive (adjective): Of or relating to punishment inflicted as vengeance for a wrong.
- retributive justice
Synonyms
- Justificatory: Serving to justify or defend.
- Exculpatory: Tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.
- Retributive: Involving punishment for wrongdoing.
- Defensive: Justifying or intended to justify.
Antonyms
- Accusatory: Indicating or suggesting blame.
- Condemnatory: Expressing strong disapproval.
- Inculpatory: Tending to incriminate or blame.
Related Phrases and Concepts
- Vindicatory justice: A concept of justice centered on deserved punishment or rightful exoneration.
- The community demanded vindicatory justice for the harm caused.
- To have a vindicatory purpose: To serve the aim of justifying or delivering deserved consequences.
- The law's vindicatory purpose is to balance the scales.
Adjective
-
providing justification
-
given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
-
retributive justice
-
-
of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
-
retributive justice demands an eye for an eye
-
Khám phá thêm
Các từ liên quan
Từ đồng nghĩa
Từ tương tự
Từ gần giống
