Found 4 items, similar to Justifies.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: justify membenarkan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: justify membenarkan, mempertanggungjawabkan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: justify justify v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; “The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns”; “The end justifies the means” [syn: warrant] 2: show to be right by providing justification or proof; “vindicate a claim” [syn: vindicate] 3: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; “rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior”; “he rationalized his lack of success” [syn: apologize, apologise, excuse, rationalize, rationalise] 4: let off the hook; “I absolve you from this responsibility” [syn: absolve, free] [ant: blame] 5: adjust the spaces between words; “justify the margins” [also: justified]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Justify Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Justified; p. pr. & vb. n. Justifying.] [F. justifier, L. justificare; justus just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Just, a., and -fy.] [1913 Webster] 1. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. [1913 Webster] That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government. --E. Everett. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] I can not justify whom the law condemns. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. (Theol.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. [1913 Webster] By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. --Acts xiii. 39. [1913 Webster] 4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to align (text) at the left (left justify) or right (right justify) margins of a column or page, or at both margins; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4. [1913 Webster] 6. (Law) (a) 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. (b) To qualify (one's self) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves against the exception of the plaintiff. --Bouvier's Law Dict. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Syn: To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate; absolve; exonerate. [1913 Webster] Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. i. 1. (Print.) To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety. [1913 Webster]