Justify

['dʒʌstɪfaɪ] or ['dʒʌstə'fai]

Definition

(verb.) adjust the spaces between words; 'justify the margins'.

(verb.) show to be right by providing justification or proof; 'vindicate a claim'.

(verb.) show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; 'The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns'; 'The end justifies the means'.

Inputed by Dustin--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.

(a.) 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.

(a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.

(a.) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.

(a.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.

(v. i.) To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.

(v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

Checker: Lucy

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Vindicate, warrant, defend, maintain, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, set right.[2]. (Theol.) Absolve, acquit, free from sin, clear from guilt.[3]. (Printing.) Adjust.

Editor: Vanessa

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Clear, vindicate, exonerate, defend, absolve, excuse

ANT:Condemn, censure, convict, criminate

Inputed by Annie

Definition

v.t. to make just: to prove or show to be just or right: to vindicate: to absolve:—pr.p. jus′tifying; pa.p. jus′tified.—adj. Justifī′able that may be justified or defended.—n. Justifī′ableness.—adv. Justifī′ably.—n. Justificā′tion vindication: absolution: a plea of sufficient reason for.—adjs. Jus′tificātive Jus′tificātory having power to justify.—n. Jus′tifier one who defends or vindicates: he who pardons and absolves from guilt and punishment.—Justification by faith the doctrine that men are justified by faith in Christ.

Typist: Nola

Examples

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