"vindicative" meaning in All languages combined

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "vindicate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "vindicativeness"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "frm",
        "3": "vindicatif"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French vindicatif",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "-"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "vindicativus"
      },
      "expansion": "vindicativus",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French vindicatif, from Medieval Latin vindicativus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more vindicative",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most vindicative",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "vindicative (comparative more vindicative, superlative most vindicative)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964, Christian Freiherr von Wolff, Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum, volume 2, number 13",
          "text": "page 316: A vindicative war can be defined as one in which we strive to gain that which is our own or which is due to us. […]\npage 328: […] since that is a vindicative war in which we strive to gain what is our own, but a punitive war is one in which a penalty is exacted from one against whom the war is brought; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate."
      ],
      "id": "en-vindicative-en-adj-xh1IA7CX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Vindicating",
          "vindicate"
        ],
        [
          "tendency",
          "tendency"
        ],
        [
          "vindicate",
          "vindicate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1668, Andrew Honyman (Church of Scotland), A Survey of the Insolent and Infamous Libel … Naphtali, page 83",
          "text": "That albeit the care of Religion toward God, in a vindicative and punishing way, and reforming it, &c. lyeth upon the King or Magistrates mainly, (he should have said onely, for none can produce a commission, but the Powers ordained of God, for using the vindicative, punitive and reforming Sword, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vindictive, excessively vengeful."
      ],
      "id": "en-vindicative-en-adj-jisy2o-s",
      "links": [
        [
          "vengeful",
          "vengeful"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vindicative"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "adjective form"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "word": "vindicatif"
        }
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        "feminine singular of vindicatif"
      ],
      "id": "en-vindicative-fr-adj-1Ir15a6X",
      "links": [
        [
          "vindicatif",
          "vindicatif#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vindicative"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle French"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "vindicate"
    },
    {
      "word": "vindicativeness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "vindicatif"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "vindicativus"
      },
      "expansion": "vindicativus",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French vindicatif, from Medieval Latin vindicativus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more vindicative",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most vindicative",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "vindicative (comparative more vindicative, superlative most vindicative)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1964, Christian Freiherr von Wolff, Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum, volume 2, number 13",
          "text": "page 316: A vindicative war can be defined as one in which we strive to gain that which is our own or which is due to us. […]\npage 328: […] since that is a vindicative war in which we strive to gain what is our own, but a punitive war is one in which a penalty is exacted from one against whom the war is brought; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate."
      ],
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        [
          "Vindicating",
          "vindicate"
        ],
        [
          "tendency",
          "tendency"
        ],
        [
          "vindicate",
          "vindicate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1668, Andrew Honyman (Church of Scotland), A Survey of the Insolent and Infamous Libel … Naphtali, page 83",
          "text": "That albeit the care of Religion toward God, in a vindicative and punishing way, and reforming it, &c. lyeth upon the King or Magistrates mainly, (he should have said onely, for none can produce a commission, but the Powers ordained of God, for using the vindicative, punitive and reforming Sword, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vindictive, excessively vengeful."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vengeful",
          "vengeful"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vindicative"
}

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      },
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  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "French adjective forms",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French non-lemma forms"
      ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feminine singular of vindicatif"
      ],
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        [
          "vindicatif",
          "vindicatif#French"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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}