justifie

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A form of justify — To provide an acceptable explanation for.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbjustifie (third-person singular simple present justifies, present participle justifying, simple past and past participle justified)

present singular third person justifies · participle present justifying · participle past justified · past justified

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of justify.

    I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justifie the wayes of God to men.

    1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 25-6
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Chicago

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