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Vindicative   Listen
adjective
Vindicative  adj.  
1.
Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.
2.
Revengeful; vindictive. (Obs.) "Vindicative persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate."






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"Vindicative" Quotes from Famous Books



... reigne in him; a bragger of some good that he wanteth; thinking nothing well but what either himself or some of his friends and countrymen have said or done. He is passionately kind and angry; careless either to gain or keep; vindicative, but, if he be well answered, at himself. For any religion, as being versed in both; interpreteth best sayings and deeds often to the worst. Oppressed with fantasie, which has ever mastered his reason: a general ...
— Shakspere And Montaigne • Jacob Feis



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