justificatory

Examples

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• Contemporary political choices ought not to be guided by a justificatory strategy built on the language of what are taken to be God's historical promises.

  Academic text (1995)

• So rule-of-law considerations do not necessarily tell the whole justificatory story.

  Academic text (2018)

• Do property rights pose a special justificatory problem?

  Academic text (1990)

• In many of these cases, no sensory experience is playing justificatory roles.

  Blog text (31)

• Its justificatory role could not be clearer.

  Academic text (2017)

• In his wonderful book Praise and Blame, Daniel Robinson poses several questions that any justificatory account of punishment must answer.

  Academic text (2003)

• We can now address two longstanding questions about restitution as a justificatory theory of punishment.

  Academic text (2003)

• A humanist approach is skeptical about the justificatory arguments of those religions that claim access to a divine order.

  Academic text (2002)

• Arguments for private property based on a tale about original acquisition in long-ago times seem, indeed, to be a justificatory embarrassment.

  Academic text (1990)

• Such resources sustain the "spirit of capitalism"—the justificatory mechanisms that compel participation and deflect critique.

  Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

J

justificative

vsjustificatory

8.9

Giving a reason to defend or explain something

is the same in meaning and use, appearing as an alternate form

V

vindicatory

vsjustificatory

9.9

Showing that a person is not guilty of a wrong

is broader, offering general reasons rather than clearing blame

Antonyms

I

indefensible

24 7.5

People cannot show a decision or action is right when others criticize it

U

unjustifiable

5 6.8

You cannot show it is right or acceptable

How Defensive

defensive

346 3.8

vindicatory

9.9

justificatory

8.8

explanatory

28 3.8

apologetic

28 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology