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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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unpardonable
English
Etymology
un- +? pardonable
Adjective
unpardonable (comparative more unpardonable, superlative most unpardonable)
- impossible to pardon; impossible to excuse or justify
- 1900, Gilbert Parker, An Unpardonable Liar:
- "I can understand your being wicked," she said keenly, "but not your being cowardly. That is and was unpardonable."
- 1912, Ralph Connor, Corporal Cameron of the Northwest Mounted Police:
- To lose a game was bad enough, but to round on a comrade was unpardonable; while to lose from the game a half-back of Cameron's calibre was unthinkable.
- 1900, Gilbert Parker, An Unpardonable Liar:
Synonyms
- inexcusable, unforgivable, unremittable
- unjustifiable, indefensible
Antonyms
- pardonable
Derived terms
- unpardonable sin
Related terms
- pardonable
Translations
References
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “unpardonable”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
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