Thesaurus: justify

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1. a. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.
2. 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.
3. a. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
4. a. To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
5. a. To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
6. v. i. To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
7. v. i. To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
8. v. show to be right by providing justification or proof
9. v. (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin
10. v. adjust the spaces between words
11. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; toabsolve.By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which yecould not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts xiii. 39.