0 to give or to be a good reason for:
[ + -ing verb ] I can't really justify taking another day off work.
It was the only thing that I could do - I don't have to justify myself to anyone.
1 to show that something is reasonable, right, or true:
How can you justify the employment of capital punishment?
New evidence from a self-confessed liar was not enough to justify a retrial.
Manufacturers need large sales to justify offering a big variety in export markets.
They haven't been given these rights for all eternity - they should justify having them just like most other people have to.
He does not propose a theorem with justifying propositions in its train.
Accordingly, if practical rationality suggests supposing the doxastic practice reliable, rationality prompts us to suppose the beliefs produced by that practice prima facie justified.
The musical and psychological evidence is that these attitudes are not justified, and never were.
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