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Vindicatory vs Indicatory - What's the difference?

vindicatory | indicatory |

As adjectives the difference between vindicatory and indicatory

is that vindicatory is promoting or producing vindication while indicatory is that indicates, signifies]] or [[imply|implies.

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.

    indicatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That indicates, signifies]] or [[imply, implies

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