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Rationalize vs Forgive - What's the difference?

rationalize | forgive |

As verbs the difference between rationalize and forgive

is that rationalize is to make something rational or more rational while forgive is to pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.

rationalize

Alternative forms

* (l) (UK et al)

Verb

(rationaliz)
  • To make something rational or more rational.
  • To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive”
  • (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
  • To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles.
  • Derived terms

    * (l), (l)

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    forgive

    English

    Verb

  • To pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.
  • Only the brave know how to forgive'''...A coward never '''forgave ; it is not in his nature. -
  • To accord forgiveness.
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