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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tending to vindicate.—2. Punitory.
  • Vindictive; revengeful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Tending to vindicate; vindicating.
  • adjective obsolete Revengeful; vindictive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a tendency to vindicate.
  • adjective Vindictive or excessively vengeful.

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