transitive verb. To demonstrate or prove to be just, right, or valid.

transitive verb. To free (a human) of the guilt and penalty attached to grievous sin. Used of God.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To demonstrate sufficient legal reason for (an action taken).

transitive verb. To prove to be qualified as a bondsman.

transitive verb. To format (a paragraph, for example) so that the lines of text begin and end evenly at a straight margin.

To prove or show to be just or conformable to reason, justice, duty, law, or propriety; vindicate; warrant; uphold.

To declare innocent or blameless; absolve; acquit; specifically, to free from the guilt or penalty of sin; reconcile to God.

To prove (any one) to be.

To make exact; cause to fit or be adapted, as the parts of a complex object; adjust, as lines or columns in printing.

To judge; pass judgment upon; hence, to punish with death; execute.

To agree; match; conform exactly; form an even surface or true line with something else: as, in printing, two lines of nonpareil and one of pica justify.

intransitive verb. To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.

intransitive verb. To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

transitive verb. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.

transitive verb. To prove; to ratify; to confirm.

transitive verb. To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to align (text) at the left (left justify) or right (right justify) margins of a column or page, or at both margins; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To qualify (one's self) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.

verb. To provide an acceptable explanation for.

verb. To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.

verb. To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.

verb. To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin

verb. show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for

verb. let off the hook

verb. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

verb. adjust the spaces between words

verb. show to be right by providing justification or proof

"But our English verb to be right had never taken a Hiphil form, or power, and for this reason, perhaps, the translators passed over, in many instances, to the Latin word justify, adopting that; though they sometimes manufacture a phrase that carries the causative meaning."

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