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What is the adjective for vindication?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb vindicate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

vindicatory
  1. Promoting or producing vindication.
  2. Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “And this model could comprise a useful vindicatory framework for that.”
      “There are vindicatory stories available to scientists, which they draw on in times of need.”
      “For Stuart Carroll it is noble violence, especially in its vindicatory aspect, that ties together and explains these contrasts.”
vindictive
  1. Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
  2. (obsolete) punitive
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Malicious and vindictive people can use the legislation to get at their neighbors who have a puppy or dog next door.”
      “He was a stern, vindictive man with piercing dark eyes and a booming basso voice which always made her shudder.”
      “Its great achievement is to recover the complexity of a literary mode that could easily be dismissed as vindictive, petty, and obscure.”
vindicative
  1. Having a tendency to vindicate.
  2. Vindictive or excessively vengeful.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Members of DOVE stand accused of being vindicative, scaremongering and using intimidatory tactics to name but a few.”
      “But to complain about that seems vindicative in the face of Graham Wall's plight.”
      “His vindicative antipathy to you now meets a recompense in the just indignation of Providence.”
vindicated
vindical
vindicable
vindicating
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