vindicatory

/'vindikətəri/

Thân thiện

A judge's vindicatory ruling restored the defendant's reputation.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. providing justification
2. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
   • retributive justice
3. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
   • retributive justice demands an eye for an eye

Từ đồng nghĩa

• justificative
• justificatory
• retributive
• retributory
• retaliatory
• relatiative