Meanings
- Providing or related to justification; justificational.
Goal abandonment in the case of means-rational agents is precisely like taking a pill that removes both an agent’s goal and the agent’s justificatory basis for achieving that goal […]
2025 June 13, Rhys Southan, Helena Ward, Jen Semler, “A timing problem for instrumental convergence”, in Philosophical Studies, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
The Appellant shall, within a further four weeks, definitely declare, by means of a justificatory statement, on what grounds he impeaches the judgment and in which respects he requests the latter to be altered. The justificatory statement in the appeal may be lodged at the same time as the appeal itself.
1917, Lewis Hertslet, editor, A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions … Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, volume 27, page 216Further, we will have to undertake a critique of the schemes by which state violence justifies itself, and the relation of those justificatory schemes to the effort to maintain its monopoly on violence.
2021, Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveattempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
adjectiveproviding justification
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian оправдателен
- оправдателен (opravdatelen)providing justification
French justificateur
- justificateurproviding justification
Greek δικαιολογητικός
- δικαιολογητικός (dikaiologitikós)providing justification
Italian giustificatore
- giustificatoreproviding justification
Polish usprawiedliwiający
- usprawiedliwiającyproviding justification
Cite this entry
justificatory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/justificatory
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