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vindicatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
    retributive justice demands an eye for an eye
  2. providing justification
  3. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
    retributive justice

How To Use vindicatory In A Sentence

  • And this model could comprise a useful vindicatory framework for that.
  • The acknowledging of this truth has a respect not only to the manifestation of his justice, but also of the wisdom, holiness, and dominion of God over his creatures: for that justice which, in respect of its effect and egress, we call vindicatory, which, as we have before demonstrated, is natural to A Dissertation on Divine Justice
  • Now that the Privy Council has confirmed the right of vindicatory damages, there will likely be many more.
  • But the justice which respects things done is either that of government, or jurisdiction or judgment; and this, again, they affirm to be either remunerative or corrective, but that corrective is either castigatory or vindicatory. A Dissertation on Divine Justice
  • Williams argues, Nietzsche is on his side, not the deniers ', because Nietzsche himself believes that, while a vindicatory history of the notions of truth and truthfulness certainly has to be a naturalistic one, that is not to say that such a history is impossible. Bernard Williams
  • But if God hate sin by nature, then by nature he is just, and vindicatory justice is natural to him. A Dissertation on Divine Justice
  • For Stuart Carroll it is noble violence, especially in its vindicatory aspect, that ties together and explains these contrasts.
  • If it is determined that the philosophical conception is empirically adequate, the result is vindicatory. Hanging
  • The question, therefore, concerning ‘the nature of the atonement’ depends on the question of whether there is in God such an attribute as distributive or vindicatory justice.
  • But this is that universal perfection of God, which, when he exercises [it] in punishing the transgressions of his creatures, is called vindicatory justice; for whatever there be in God perpetually inherent, whatever excellence there be essential to his nature, which occasions his displeasure with sin, and which necessarily occasions this displeasure, this is that justice of which we are speaking. A Dissertation on Divine Justice
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