Synonyms for Justifying:

adj.
• explanatory
- Annotative
- Explicative
- Hermeneutic
- Illuminative
- allegorical
- analytical
- critical
- demonstrative
- discursive
- enlightening
- exegetic
- expository
- graphic
- guiding
- illustrative
- informative
- informing
- instructive
- summary
• extenuating
- Varnishing
- Whitewashing
- diminishing
- lessening
- moderating
- reducing
- sanitizing
- softening
• interpretative
- Explanative
- Hermeneutical
- elucidative
- expositive
n.
• proving
- Examining
- confirmation
- testing
v.
• account for
- clarify
- elucidate
- resolve
• accounting
- Describing
- Explaining
- Explicating
- accounting
- clarifying
- rationalizing
• advocate
- advance
- advise
- back
- be in corner
- bless
- bolster
- brace up
- build up
- campaign for
- champion
- encourage
- further
- get on bandwagon
- give a leg up
- give a lift
- go for
- go to bat for
- go with
- hold with
- plead for
- plump for
- press for
- promote
- propose
- push
- recommend
- ride shotgun for
- root for
- run interference for
- say so
- side
- speak for
- spread around
- stump for
- tout
- urge
• argue
- appeal
- attest
- controvert
- demonstrate
- denote
- display
- evince
- exhibit
- hold
- imply
- indicate
- manifest
- persuade
- present
- prevail upon
- reason
- show
- suggest
- talk into
- testify
- witness
• assert
- affirm
- allege
- argue
- asservate
- aver
- avouch
- avow
- butt in
- cite
- horn in
- mouth off
- pop off
- predicate
- press
- proclaim
- profess
- pronounce
- protest
- put forward
- say
- shoot off one's mouth
- shoot one's wad
- state
- stress
- swear
• justify
- acquit
- advocate
- alibi
- answer for
- apologize for
- approve
- argue for
- assert
- be answerable for
- bear out
- brief
- claim
- clear
- condone
- contend
- cop a plea
- countenance
- crawl
- do justice to
- establish
- excuse
- favor
- legalize
- maintain
- make allowances
- make good
- pardon
- plead
- rebut
- show cause
- speak in favor
- square
- stand up for
- support
- sustain
- uphold
- validate
- verify
- warrant
• responding
- Acknowledging
- Denying
- Objecting
- Rebutting
- Refuting
- Replying
- Responding
- Retorting
- answering
- defending
- echoing
- expounding
- reacting
- returning
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Proving

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- Proper noun, singular
  justify.
Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  justifications.
- Verb, past tense
  warranted.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  arguing, asserting, confirming, defending, detailing, enabling, identifying, imposing, motivating, moving, parts, reaching, resulting, saying, showing, stimulating, support, surrounding, underlying, verifying, Acknowledging, Admitting, Allowing, Applying, Attesting, Authorizing, Basing, Certifying, Citing, Declaring, Describing, Discussing, Displaying, Doing, Establishing, Evidencing, Exhibiting, Explaining, Granting, Having, Illustrating, Indicating, Necessitating, Outlining, Permitting, Requiring, Signifying, Testifying, Underpinning, Warranting, Corroborating, Proving, Stating, rationalizing, documenting, exhibits, demonstrating, authorising, legitimising.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  supports.
- Verb, base form
  condone, excuse, merit, substantiate, warrant.

What are the hypernyms for Justifying?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
account for, apologize, defend, excuse, explain, rationalize, validate, vindicate, warrant.

Usage examples for Justifying

She had married Collingwood against her reason, Justifying herself for being swayed by human feeling by reiterating the finality of the action.

"The Locusts' Years"

Mary Helen Fee

He is at one with the first speaker, when he suggests that certainty in matters of belief is no more to be desired than to be attained; but that personage regards uncertainty as Justifying presumptions of a dogmatic kind; while its value to Mr. Browning lies precisely in its right to exclude them.

"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"

Mrs. Sutherland Orr

She took upon herself the responsibility of the Catholic contribution, Justifying and explaining it by "her dear and tender affection to the King and the example of other of His Majesty's subjects," and pleading her ignorance of the law if inadvertently anything illegal had been done.

"Henrietta Maria"

Henrietta Haynes

Famous quotes with Justifying

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

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Ron Paul

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