justify
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To provide an acceptable explanation for.
How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
- 2.
(transitive)To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
The text will look better justified.
- 4.
(transitive)To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- 5.
(reflexive)To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.
- 6.
(transitive)To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- 7.
(law) 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.
- 8.
(law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
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ine-pro From Middle English justifien, from Old French justifier, from justificare (make just), from Latin justus, iustus (just) + ficare (make), from facere, equivalent to just + -ify. ine-pro