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vindicator|ˈvɪndɪkeɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. (eccl.) vindicātor, agent-n. f. vindicāre vindicate v. So OF. vindicateur, It. vindicatore, Pg. vindicador.]
One who vindicates, in various senses of the verb.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 68 For as Romulus was the first builder and peopler of that citie, so was Camillus the vindicator and deliuerer of the same. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §3 A man, who in the memory of many present, had sate in that House an earnest vindicator of the Laws. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 314 Dr. Twisse, and all our modern vindicators of grace. 1693Dryden Disc. Satire Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 87 A noble soul is better pleased with a zealous vindicator of Roman liberty, than with a temporising poet. 1714J. Fortescue-Aland Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. Ded. 4 Our Author was so great a Lover and Vindicator of it [the English Constitution]. 1791Gentl. Mag. Jan. 32/1 A certain vindicator of the Marbles..has taken occasion..to insult..Le Clerc. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. xiii. When this eager vindicator of betrayed innocence arrived in the capital of Hyder. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. xi. (1855) 190 Job knew that God was the vindicator of wrongs. 1884Spect. 4 Oct. 1320/2 Our author..has..entered the lists..as the vindicator of the claims of the Highland Crofters.
Hence ˈvindicatorship, the personality of a vindicator. rare—1.
1695J. Sage Fundam. Charter Presbyt. Pref. (1697) l 4, It was necessary for his Vindicatorship to justify this Separation. |