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vindicatorily

adv

Etymology

From vindicatory + -ly.

  1. borrowed from vindicātus
  2. suffixed as vindicatory — “vindicate + ory”
  3. suffixed as vindicatorily — “vindicatory + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a vindicatory manner

    In a vindicatory manner; in vindication of someone or something.

    • She spoke not angrily, but haughtily — not vindictively, but vindicatorily."
    • ...He has been shamefully wronged since his death." Thus vindicatorily of his friend spoke the just and kind Geoffrey Crayon a day or two since; and we are glad to record it while the dark wing of the poet's renown is uppermost.
    • Not necessarily because he had put himself out of relation with a fixed and central truth — she explained self-vindicatorily — but because he had lost that anchorage which prevents excessive thinking.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA