vindicative

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate.
 * 2) Vindictive, excessively vengeful.
 * 3) * 1668, Andrew Honyman (Church of Scotland), A Survey of the Insolent and Infamous Libel [...] Naphtali, page 83:
 * That albeit the care of Religion toward God, in a vindicative and punishing way, and reforming it, &c. lyeth upon the King or Magistrates mainly, (he should have said onely, for none can produce a commission, but the Powers ordained of God, for using the vindicative, punitive and reforming Sword,
 * 1) * 1668, Andrew Honyman (Church of Scotland), A Survey of the Insolent and Infamous Libel [...] Naphtali, page 83:
 * That albeit the care of Religion toward God, in a vindicative and punishing way, and reforming it, &c. lyeth upon the King or Magistrates mainly, (he should have said onely, for none can produce a commission, but the Powers ordained of God, for using the vindicative, punitive and reforming Sword,

Derived terms

 * vindicate
 * vindicativeness