What's the difference between justificatory and vindicatory?

Justificatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama, senior partner in a dysfunctional relationship, allowed Netanyahu to beard him repeatedly, not least in the latter’s self-justificatory 2015 address to Congress .
  • (2) It also ran a serialisation of a self-justificatory book by the officer in charge of the case, Detective Inspector Keith Pedder, headlined 'How British Justice Betrayed Rachel's Son'.
  • (3) He then spent his time trying to claim for a hearing without ever obtaining it, writing justificatory reports.
  • (4) The author examines the points of convergence between local health systems and bioethics in three basic areas: structural or institutional, methodological or justificatory, and regulatory or normative.
  • (5) The two most popular non-classical records chosen by castaways are the rather self-justificatory "Non, je ne regrette rien" and "My Way".
  • (6) Afflicted by diabetes, he spent his last years writing about Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, and sending self-justificatory faxes to newspaper editors from his seaside villa in Hammamet.
  • (7) The justificatory rhetoric that surrounds the current nominations is familiar, stale and inaccurate.
  • (8) When the preconditions for that dialogic democratic practice are met, consensus has a justificatory role in ethics; when they are not, consensus, as distinct from mere agreement, does not emerge and can have no moral authority.
  • (9) Once autonomy is isolated from other justificatory factors, however, possible cases can be imagined which cast doubt on the great valuational weight assigned it by strong anti-paternalists.
  • (10) At the same time that Australia’s richest are gouging benefits from super’s tax iniquity, Abbott’s budget is stripping the welfare safety net out of the post-war Australian social contract with scaremongering, justificatory rhetoric of debt, crisis and emergency.

Vindicatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
  • (a.) Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.

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