Definition of Justify

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Justify

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

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.

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

To prove; to ratify; to confirm.

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

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

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

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.

To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.

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Justify Quotations

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Edward Abbey

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
Jimmy Carter

Justify Translations

justify in French is saillir, motiver, justifier, justifions, justifiez
justify in Spanish is fundar, justifique

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