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.