justify

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To provide an acceptable explanation for. transitive
    — How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
  2. To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant. transitive
    — Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
  3. To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned. transitive
    — The text will look better justified.
  4. To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin. transitive
    — I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
  5. To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right. reflexive
    — She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.
  6. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. transitive
    — 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 knowledge She is thy very princess.
  7. 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.
  8. To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
    — J'USTIFYING BAIL, practice, is the production of bail in court, who there justify' themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.

词形变化

justifies present,singular,third-person justifying participle,present justified participle,past justified past justifie alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
vindicate
衍生词
dexify justifyingly justifying space overjustify rejustify self-justify the ends justify the means unjustify
相关词
-fy just justifiable justifiably justification unjustified

词源

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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