vindicatorily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a vindicatory manner; in vindication of someone or something.
Example Sentences
- "She spoke not angrily, but haughtily — not vindictively, but vindicatorily.""
- "...He has been shamefully wronged since his death." Thus vindicatorily of his friend spoke the just and kind Geoffrey Crayon a day or two since; and we are glad to record it while the dark wing of the poet's renown is uppermost."
- "Not necessarily because he had put himself out of relation with a fixed and central truth — she explained self-vindicatorily — but because he had lost that anchorage which prevents excessive thinking."
Etymology
From vindicatory + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more vindicatorily (comparative)
most vindicatorily (superlative)