vindicative -- establishing justification or innocence
Except! that vindicative is sliding into vindictive. Which is Wrong, but what can you do? Human languages are not programming languages, except in _Snow Crash_.
The initial aggravation was in a comment on Making Light; the subsequent was the fact that plugging "define vindicative" into Google gets three or four dictionary sites that mention vindictive as a secondary meaning for vindicative.
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:12 am (UTC)