Word Meaning

justify definition and meaning

a. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.
a. 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.
a. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
a. To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
a. To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
v. i. To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
v. i. To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.