JUSTIFY
\d͡ʒˈʌstɪfˌa͡ɪ], \dʒˈʌstɪfˌaɪ], \dʒ_ˈʌ_s_t_ɪ_f_ˌaɪ]\
Definitions of JUSTIFY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
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adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"
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show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"
By Princeton University
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defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
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show to be right by providing justification or prove; "vindicate a claim"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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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To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
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To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
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To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
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To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
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To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
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To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a change or accusation.
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To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
By Oddity Software
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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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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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To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
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To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
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To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
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To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
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To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
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To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a change or accusation.
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To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
By Noah Webster.
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To show or prove to be right; as, to justify the ways of God to men; pardon; pronounce free from blame.
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In printing, to make even, as lines.
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Justified.
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Justifying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make just: to prove or show to be just or right: to vindicate: to absolve: in printing, to adjust and cause to fit as type in the forms:- pr.p. justifying; pa.p. justified.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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