vindicator

Example Sentences

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It confers on the plaintiff the status of a vindicator of rights, and it puts on notice those who are, or might contemplate, acting on incorrect interpretations of the law.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2021

John Adams described just such a foreign policy when he wrote that America is “the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all” but “the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2018

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.’”

From Time • May 21, 2015

The movie star, the vindicator of the victims, is Donziger, “a cross between George Clooney and an Easter Island statue” in Goldhaber’s happy phrasing. 

From Forbes • Sep. 8, 2014

At first this imagination was dormant, and the French people conceived only of punishing the vindicator along with victim, for daring to accuse their processes of injustice.

From Emile Zola by Howells, William Dean