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justify
English
Alternative forms
- justifie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English justifien, from Old French justifier, from Late Latin justificare (“make just”), from Latin justus, iustus (“just”) + ficare (“make”), from facere, equivalent to just +? -ify.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??st?fa?/
- Hyphenation: jus?ti?fy
Verb
justify (third-person singular simple present justifies, present participle justifying, simple past and past participle justified)
- (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.
- (transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
- Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- 1861, Edward Everett, The Great Issues Now Before the Country, An oration delivered at the New York Academy of Music, July 4, 1861, New York: James G. Gregory, p. 8,[1]
- Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government, under an abstract constitutional right to do so.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Acts 13.39,[3]
- And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- (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.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 16.15,[4]
- And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 13,[5]
- […] I was equally unable to justify myself and unwilling to acknowledge my errors […]
- To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act V, Scene 1,[6]
- She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
- By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;
- When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
- She is thy very princess.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act I, Scene 2,[7]
- […] say
- My wife’s a hobby-horse, deserves a name
- As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
- Before her troth-plight: say’t and justify’t.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act V, Scene 1,[6]
- (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.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- 1839, John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union, Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, Volume I, p. 557,[8]
- JUSTIFYING BAIL, practice, is the production of bail in court, who there justify themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.
- 1839, John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union, Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, Volume I, p. 557,[8]
Related terms
- -fy
- just
- justification
- justifiable
- justifiably
- unjustified
Translations
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justice
English
Etymology
From Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin i?stitia (“righteousness, equity”), from i?stus (“just”), from i?s (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-. Doublet of Justitia.
Displaced native Middle English rightwished, rightwisnes (“justice”) (from Old English rihtw?snes (“justice, righteousness”), compare Old English ?erihte (“justice”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d??st?s/
- Hyphenation: jus?tice
Noun
justice (countable and uncountable, plural justices)
- The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
- The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.
- Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.
- The civil power dealing with law.
- A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized when placed before a name.
- Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.
Synonyms
- (judge of various lower courts): See judge
- (judge of a superior court): justiciar, justiciary
Antonyms
- injustice
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- fairness
Further reading
- justice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Old French justise, justice, borrowed from Latin i?stitia, j?stitia. Doublet of justesse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ys.tis/
Noun
justice f (plural justices)
- justice
Derived terms
Related terms
- juste
References
- “justice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “justice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French justise, justice, borrowed from Latin i?stitia, j?stitia (“righteousness, equity”), from i?stus (“just”), from i?s (“right”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-.
Noun
justice f (plural justices)
- (Jersey) justice
Old French
Noun
justice f (oblique plural justices, nominative singular justice, nominative plural justices)
- Alternative form of justise
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