- 1. a. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative. Source: opted
- 2. a. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. Source: opted
- 3. adj. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. providing justification Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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 Source: ecdict
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