Justify vs Falsify - What's the difference?
justify | falsify |
To provide an acceptable explanation for.
To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
* E. Everett
To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xiii. 39
To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
* Spenser
To misrepresent.
To prove to be false.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
To counterfeit; to forge.
(finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(obsolete) To baffle or escape.
* Samuel Butler
(obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
In lang=en terms the difference between justify and falsify
is that justify is to absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin while falsify is to counterfeit; to forge.As verbs the difference between justify and falsify
is that justify is to provide an acceptable explanation for while falsify is to alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.justify
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Alternative forms
* justifie (obsolete)Verb
- How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
- Paying too much for car insurance is not justified .
- 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.
- The text will look better justified .
- I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
- By him all that believe are justified' from all things, from which ye could not be ' justified by the law of Moses.
- (Shakespeare)
falsify
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Verb
(en-verb)- to falsify a record or document
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- to falsify coin
- (Story)
- (Daniell)
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe
- to falsify one's faith or word
- (Sir Philip Sidney)