justify

1. a. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. a. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. Source: opted

4. a. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. Source: opted

5. a. To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4. Source: opted

6. v. i. To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly. Source: opted

7. v. i. To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety. Source: opted

8. v. show to be right by providing justification or proof Source: wordnet

9. v. (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin Source: wordnet

10. v. adjust the spaces between words Source: wordnet

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. Source: adambom

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