adv. [f. VINDICATORY a.] In a vindicatory or justifying manner.
1854. N. P. Willis, in Life & Lett. W. Irving (1864), IV. 179. Thus vindicatorily of his friend spoke the just and kind Geoffrey Crayon.
1891. 19th Cent., Dec., 1019. The vindicatorily personal denial of Councils of War in 1866.
