to justify

Examples

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• What, what festivals will we have to create to justify our own sin?

• Furthermore, students feel justified in complaining of unfairness and demanding reconsideration when their grades do not match their expectations.

  Academic text (2013)

• That is, how do you justify God's ways towards men?

• You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

  Blog text (6)

• God calls them to the faith, justifies them, and finally glorifies them.

  Academic text (2003)

• After Trent, they insist that "faith alone" did not justify, but faith in and through sacraments.

  Academic text (1991)

• Baptism, for instance, "justifies ex opere operato: this is not man's work but God's."

  Academic text (1991)

• The theologian explained how God can justify even the most troubled souls through faith.

• In his sermon, the pastor asserted that God will justify the faithful on the day of judgment.

• Many believe that repentance can lead God to justify sinners, regardless of their past mistakes.

Synonyms

V

to vindicate

vsto justify

54 8.6

To show someone or something was right and not to blame

is declared innocent by a divine authority without human proof

Antonyms

C

to condemn

46 4.8

To show by actions or facts that someone is guilty

Idioms

H

hard to justify

3 7.4

Difficult to explain or defend as reasonable

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology