justifying

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Verb

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justifying

  1. present participle and gerund of justify

Noun

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justifying (plural justifyings)

  1. A process of justification.
    • 1829, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, page 562:
      So very precocious was the youth's sagacity, and premature his opinions; but of course, so surrounded, so employed, hearing of nothing but oppressions, and complainings, and justifyings, the bias was inevitable.