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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
justify
v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The
emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end
justifies the means" [syn: justify, warrant]
2: show to be right by providing justification or proof;
"vindicate a claim" [syn: justify, vindicate]
3: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by
reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy
behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" [syn:
apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize,
rationalise]
4: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
[syn: absolve, justify, free] [ant: blame, fault]
5: adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Justified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Justifying.] [F. justifier, L. justificare; justus
just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Just, a., and
-fy.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or
defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety,
or duty.
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That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. --Milton.
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Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify
revolution, it would not justify the evil of
breaking up a government. --E. Everett.
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2. To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove
to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to
absolve; to exonerate; to clear.
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I can not justify whom the law condemns. --Shak.
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3. (Theol.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to
exculpate; to absolve.
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By him all that believe are justified from all
things, from which ye could not be justified by the
law of Moses. --Acts xiii.
39.
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4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] --Shak.
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5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper
spacing; to align (text) at the left (left justify) or
right (right justify) margins of a column or page, or at
both margins; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Law)
(a) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal
reason for an act that has been made the subject of a
charge or accusation.
(b) To qualify (one's self) as a surety by taking oath to
the ownership of sufficient property.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The production of bail in court, who there
justify themselves against the exception of the
plaintiff. --Bouvier's
Law Dict.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Syn: To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate;
absolve; exonerate.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. i.
1. (Print.) To form an even surface or true line with
something else; to fit exactly.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Law) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient
to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
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Thesaurus Results for justify:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
absolve, account, account for, acquit, allow, amnesty, approve, argue, assert, authenticate, authorize, back, bear out, claim, clear, compose, confirm, contend, corroborate, cry sour grapes, decontaminate, defend, demonstrate, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, do justice to, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, explain, explain away, extenuate, forgive, free, give absolution, gloss, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, impose, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, let go, let off, make up, nonpros, overrun, palliate, pardon, permit, pi, pi a form, prove, purge, quash the charge, rationalize, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, remit, restore, sanction, set, set free, set in print, shrive, substantiate, support, sustain, uphold, validate, verify, vindicate, warrant, whitewash, withdraw the charge |
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Common Misspellings > |
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