different between vindictive vs vindicatory

English

Etymology

From Latin vindicta (“vengeance”), from vindico (“claim, vindicate”), from vindex (“defender”), +? -ive.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /v?n?d?k.t?v/
• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

vindictive (comparative more vindictive, superlative most vindictive)

1. Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
2. (obsolete) punitive

Synonyms

• vengeful, revengeful, nasty
• See also Thesaurus:vengeful

Derived terms

• vindictively
• vindictiveness

Related terms

• vindicate
• vindication
• vindicator

Translations

Further reading

• vindictive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vindictive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vindictive at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

vindicate +? -ory

Adjective

vindicatory (comparative more vindicatory, superlative most vindicatory)

1. Promoting or producing vindication.
   • 1995, Douglas Vickers, The Tyranny of the Market, ?ISBN, 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.

2. 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.