"vindicative" meaning in English

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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; […]",
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          "text": "He in heat of action Is more vindicative than jealous love.",
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          "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, […]"
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        "Vindictive, excessively vengeful."
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