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Justify vs Relevance - What's the difference?

justify | relevance |

As a verb justify

is to provide an acceptable explanation for.

As a noun relevance is

the property or state of being relevant or pertinent.

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)

    relevance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * relevancy (much less common)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
  • Synonyms

    * bearing * pertinence

    Antonyms

    * irrelevance