An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
VINDICATORY
justificative, justificatory, vindicatory
(adjective) providing justification
retributive, retributory, vindicatory
(adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; “retributive justice”
retaliatory, retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory
(adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; “retributive justice demands an eye for an eye”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
vindicatory (comparative more vindicatory, superlative most vindicatory)
Promoting or producing vindication.
Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
Synonyms
• (promoting or producing vindication): defensive, justificatory
• (promoting or producing retribution or punishment): punitive, retributive
Source: Wiktionary
Vin"di*ca*to*ry, a.
1. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
2. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins. Abp. Bramhall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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