"vindicatory" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "vindicate + -ory",
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      "form": "more vindicatory",
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      "form": "most vindicatory",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1995, Douglas Vickers, The Tyranny of the Market, page 77",
          "text": "The principal vindicatory feature of the market system . . . rests in the fact that it permits and facilitates an intermarket and intersectoral flow of economic values.",
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        "Promoting or producing vindication."
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          "sense": "promoting or producing vindication",
          "word": "defensive"
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        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "sense": "promoting or producing vindication",
          "word": "justificatory"
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          "ref": "1800, The Annual Register, volume 39, London: J. Dodsley, published 1797, page 486",
          "text": "To prevent the strong from oppressing the weak; to protect the acquisitions of industry . . . are duties which require that delegated authority should be exerted by public force and the vindicatory dispensations of pains and penalties.",
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        "Promoting or producing retribution or punishment."
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          "punishment",
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          "sense": "promoting or producing retribution or punishment",
          "word": "punitive"
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        {
          "_dis1": "14 86",
          "sense": "promoting or producing retribution or punishment",
          "word": "retributive"
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  "word": "vindicatory"
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        "Promoting or producing vindication."
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      "sense": "promoting or producing vindication",
      "word": "defensive"
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  "word": "vindicatory"
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