| Justify 1. (v.) To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. 2. (v.) 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. (v.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. 4. (v.) To prove; to ratify; to confirm. 5. (v.) 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. Thesaurus Entries absolve, account, account for, acquit, allow, amnesty, approve, argue, assert, authenticate, authorize, back, bear out, claim, clear, compose, confirm, contend, corroborate, cry sour grapes, decontaminate, defend, demonstrate, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, do justice to, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, explain, explain away, extenuate, forgive, free, give absolution, gloss, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, impose, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, let go, let off, make up, nonpros, overrun, palliate, pardon, permit, pi, pi a form, prove, purge, quash the charge, rationalize, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, remit, restore, sanction, set, set free, set in print, shrive, substantiate, support, sustain, uphold, validate, verify, vindicate, warrant, whitewash, withdraw the charge |