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Justify vs Rationalizing - What's the difference?

justify | rationalizing |

As verbs the difference between justify and rationalizing

is that justify is to provide an acceptable explanation for while rationalizing is .

As a noun rationalizing is

the act of one who rationalizes.

justify

English

Alternative forms

* justifie (obsolete)

Verb

  • To provide an acceptable explanation for.
    • How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
    Paying too much for car insurance is not justified .
  • To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
    • Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
  • * E. Everett
    • Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify' revolution, it would not ' justify the evil of breaking up a government.
  • To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
    • The text will look better justified .
  • To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin
  • * Shakespeare
    • I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
  • * Bible, Acts xiii. 39
    • By him all that believe are justified' from all things, from which ye could not be ' justified by the law of Moses.
  • To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Related terms

    * -fy * just * justification * justifiable * justifiably * unjustified

    rationalizing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who rationalizes.
  • * 1954 , Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (page 140)
    • But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions.