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justificatory

[ juh-stif-i-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, juhs-tuh-fi-key-tuh-ree ]

adjective

  1. serving to justify; providing justification.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of justificatory1

1570–80; < Late Latin Âá³Ü²õ³Ù¾±´Ú¾±³¦Äå ( re ) to justify + -tory 1
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Example Sentences

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No work is complete without a justificatory explanation stapled to it; shape and color and line are hardly anyone’s concern.

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"The crime was the crime of a madman," they said in a long justificatory piece this week in Le Monde.

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Do you think it’s true that, fundamentally, religions are justificatory props and that it’s more concrete or existential grievances that are really animating behavior?

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They must thus cover them with dollops of justificatory pride, to lever some notional dollop of happiness.

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We have inserted many justificatory pieces, some of which have never before been published.

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