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Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.

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  1. a. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
  2. a. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.
  3. adj. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
  4. adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
  5. adj. providing justification
  6. 1. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative. 2. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins. Abp. Bramhall.
  7. s of or relating to or having the nature of retribution s given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts s providing justification