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        "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."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.\nHow can you justify spending so much money on clothes?\nPaying too much for car insurance is not justified.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book I”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:What in me is darkIllumine, what is low raise and support;That to the highth of this great ArgumentI may assert th’ Eternal Providence,And justifie the wayes of God to men."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.\nNothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.\n1861,  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, page 8: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."
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              "mean": "(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.\nThe text will look better justified."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.\n1591 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Acts 13:39:And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."
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              "mean": "(reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.\nShe felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Luke 16:15: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.\n1848,  Anne Brontë,  “Chapter 13”, in  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall‎:  I was equally unable to justify myself and unwilling to acknowledge my errors"
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              "mean": "To prove; to ratify; to confirm.\nc. 1607–1608,  William Shakeſpeare,  The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. , London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  , published 1609, →OCLC, :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 knowledgeShe is thy very princess.\nc. 1610–1611 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Winters Tale”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :   sayMy wife’s a hobby-horse, deserves a nameAs rank as any flax-wench that puts toBefore her troth-plight: say’t and justify’t."
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              "mean": "(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."
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              "mean": "(law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.\n1839,  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, volume I, Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, page 557:JUSTIFYING BAIL, practice, is the production of bail in court, who there justify themselves against the exception of the plaintiff."
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