Justifies
[dʒʌstifaiz]
Examples
- The principle is not what justifies an activity, for the principle is but another name for the continuity of the activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- However, it justifies me, I suppose, in going into mourning. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then you don't believe that the Bible justifies slavery, said Miss Ophelia. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That is what gives understanding, and justifies the observation that the intuitions of scientific discovery and the artist's perceptions are closely related. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Without supposing any change in human quality, but merely its release from the present system of inordinate waste, history justifies this expectation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What you say now justifies my own view, said Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He fancies that some abstract principle justifies his course of action without recognizing that his principle needs justification. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She grows up, and more than justifies my good opinion, and I remain her guardian and her friend. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Simon