vindicatorily

comparative more vindicatorily · superlative most vindicatorily

1. rareIn a vindicatory manner; in vindication of someone or something.

   She spoke not angrily, but haughtily — not vindictively, but vindicatorily."

   1852, Pierce Egan, The London apprentice, and the goldsmith's daughter of West Chepe, page 167

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   ...He has been shamefully wronged since his death." Thus vindicatorily of his friend spoke the just and kind Geoffrey Crayon a day or two since; and we are glad to record it while the dark wing of the poet's renown is uppermost.

   1864, Washington Irving, Works of Washington Irving, Volume 26

   Not necessarily because he had put himself out of relation with a fixed and central truth — she explained self-vindicatorily — but because he had lost that anchorage which prevents excessive thinking.

   1905, Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association, Eclectic medical journal