Meanings (ES + gloss)
explicar • justificar • legitimar • razonar
To provide an acceptable explanation for.
How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
ameritar • cohonestar • justificar • legitimar • merecer • meritar
To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government, under an abstract constitutional right to do so.
justificar
To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
The text will look better justified.
absolver
To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
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