meaning of justify
1. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.
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.
3. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
5. To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
6. To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
7. To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify ones self as bail or surety.
8. adjust the spaces between words; "justify the
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