vindicative
Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate.
Adjective
- Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate.
- 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. […] page 328: […] since that is a vindicative war in which we strive to gain what is our own, but...
- Vindictive, excessively vengeful.
- He in heat of action Is more vindicative than jealous love. - c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First...
- 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...
Origin
From Middle French vindicatif, from Medieval Latin vindicativus.