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justificating

justificating is the present participle and gerund of justificate.

Meaning of justificate

Verb

justificate (third-person singular simple present justificates, present participle justificating, simple past and past participle justificated)

  1. To provide a justification for; to justify.
    • Accordingly, when an application was made for the first quarter's rent, Mr. Cincinnatus W. Sloaker coolly returned for answer, that " he knew of no obligation no-how to justificate him to part with a cent's worth of scrapins until the correct balance of time was figured up;" and, therefore, all...1851, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 92, page 446

Questions about justificating

What is justificating the present participle and gerund of?
Justificating is the present participle and gerund of justificate.

Words near justificating in the dictionary

  1. justificanda
  2. justificandum
  3. justificate
  4. justificated
  5. justificates
  6. justificating
  7. justification
  8. justificational
  9. justificationism
  10. justificationist
  11. justificationists

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