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Vindicate vs Vindicable - What's the difference?

vindicate | vindicable |

As a verb vindicate

is to clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

As an adjective vindicable is

able to be vindicated; justifiable.

vindicate

English

Verb

  • To clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
    • to vindicate someone's honor
  • To justify by providing evidence.
    • to vindicate a right, claim or title
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Ukrainians immediately demanded a goal and their claims were vindicated as replays showed the ball crossed the line before Terry's intervention.}}
  • To maintain or defend a cause against opposition.
    • to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries
  • To provide justification for.
    • The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.
  • To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
  • (obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
  • (obsolete) To avenge; to punish
    • A war to vindicate infidelity.

    Related terms

    * vindication * vindicator * vindictive

    vindicable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • able to be vindicated; justifiable
  • *{{quote-book, year=1852, author=John West, title=The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The extreme pains taken to reconcile the unfortunate beings to their lot; the assiduity of the clergy to make up, by the assurance of divine mercy, the inexorable fate which awaited them; proved that these awful slaughters were onerous to the colonial conscience, and vindicable only as the last resort of the last necessity. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=James Morris Whiton, title=Miracles and Supernatural Religion, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The elimination of the indefensible, the setting aside of the legendary, the transference of the supposedly miraculous to the order of natural powers and processes so far as vindicable ground for such critical treatment is discovered, is the only way to answer the first of all questions concerning the Bible: How much of this is credible history? }}