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Definition of Recriminatory
1. Adjective. Countering one charge with another. "Recriminatory arguments"
Similar to: Inculpative, Inculpatory
Derivative terms: Recriminate, Recriminate
Definition of Recriminatory
1. a. Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.
Definition of Recriminatory
1. Adjective. In the way of recriminations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recriminatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recriminatory
Literary usage of Recriminatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law and Practice of Election Petitions: With an Appendix, Containing the by Henry Hardcastle (1880)
"Consequently, if the Court avoid the election without seating the unsuccessful
candidate who claimed the seat (and against whom a recriminatory case is ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords by John Fraser Macqueen (1842)
"recriminatory matter subsequent to the Wife's adultery rejected. ... Letter tendered
to prove recriminatory matter anterior to Wife's adultery rejected. ..."
3. The Civil Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"... in a the answer as a recriminatory defense is a bar to such recrimina- defense
when the ... recriminatory ..."
4. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!"—Lecturing in Vain. — Models of Kingly Perfection.—A
Heaven Assigned Task.—-recriminatory Reproaches. — The Royalist Emigrants. ..."
5. Revised Laws of the State of California: In Four Codes : Political, Civil by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, Charles Lindley (1871)
"... the answer as a recriminatory defence is a bar to such criminatory" defence
when the ... recriminatory ..."
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