Moralize vs Justify - What's the difference?
moralize | justify |
To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.
* L'Estrange
* Shakespeare
To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.
* Wordsworth
To render moral; to correct the morals of.
* D. Ramsay
To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.
* Sir Thomas Browne
To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
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.
As verbs the difference between moralize and justify
is that moralize is to apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from while justify is to provide an acceptable explanation for.moralize
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Verb
- This fable is moralized in a common proverb.
- Did he not moralize this spectacle?
- While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed / By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.
- It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country.
- Good and bad stars moralize not our actions.
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)
