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

In Wales, some nine or ten years ago, Rebecca, as the mysterious and masqued redresser of public wrongs, was rapidly passing into a mythical expression for that universal character of Rhadamanthian avenger or vindicator.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)