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.
Related Definitions:
Absolve,
Accusation,
Act,
Adjust,
An,
And,
As,
Bail,
Be,
Been,
Blame,
By,
Change,
Clear,
Confirm,
Conformable,
Declare,
Defend,
Done,
Duty,
Else,
Even,
Exactly,
Exculpate,
Exonerate,
Fit,
For,
Form,
Free,
From,
Guilt,
Had,
Have,
Has,
If,
Is,
Just,
Justice,
Justification,
Law,
Legal,
Line,
Made,
Maintain,
Make,
Oath,
Of,
One,
Or,
Ownership,
Pardon,
Person,
Pronounce,
Proper,
Property,
Propriety,
Prove,
Qualify,
Ratify,
Reason,
Right,
Righteous,
See,
Self,
Show,
Something,
Subject,
Sufficient,
Surely,
Surety,
Surface,
Take,
Taking,
That,
The,
To,
Treat,
True,
Type,
Vindicate,
Which,
With
Justify Quotations
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
Barack Obama
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
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
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
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
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer
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
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley
To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.
Isabelle Adjani
Justify Translations
justify in French is saillir, motiver, justifier, justifions, justifiez
justify in Spanish is fundar, justifique
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
