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Punitive vs Vindicatory - What's the difference?

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Vindicatory is a synonym of punitive.



As adjectives the difference between punitive and vindicatory

is that punitive is inflicting punishment, punishing while vindicatory is promoting or producing vindication.

punitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (legal, military) inflicting punishment, punishing
    • Washington imposed punitive sanctions on Syria.
    The jury awarded $10,000 in punitive damages.

    Related terms

    * punishment * punitive damages * punitively ----

    vindicatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Promoting or producing vindication.
  • * 1995 , Douglas Vickers, The Tyranny of the Market , ISBN 9780472106189, p. 77:
    • 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.
  • Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
  • * 1800 , The Annual Register (1797), J. Dodsley (London), vol. 39, p. 486:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (promoting or producing vindication) defensive, justificatory * (promoting or producing retribution or punishment) punitive, retributive

    Derived terms

    * vindicatorily

    References

    *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.