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justificatory

/ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfəˌkeɪt(ə)ɹi/US/d͡ʒəˈstɪ.fə.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/

justificatory adjective: providing or related to justification; justificational.

Adjective

justificatory

  1. Providing or related to justification; justificational.
    • The Appellant shall, within a further four weeks, definitely declare, by means of a justificatory statement, on what grounds he impeaches the judgment and in which respects he requests the latter to be altered. The justificatory statement in the appeal may be lodged at the same time as the appeal...1917, Lewis Hertslet, editor, A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions … Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, volume 27, page 216
    • Further, we will have to undertake a critique of the schemes by which state violence justifies itself, and the relation of those justificatory schemes to the effort to maintain its monopoly on violence.2021, Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence

Examples of justificatory in a sentence

  • The justificatory statement in the appeal may be lodged at the same time as the appeal itself.1917, Lewis Hertslet, editor, A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions … Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, volume 27...
  • Goal abandonment in the case of means-rational agents is precisely like taking a pill that removes both an agent’s goal and the agent’s justificatory basis for achieving that goal […]2025 June 13, Rhys Southan, Helena Ward, Jen Semler, “A timing problem for instrumental convergence”, in Philosophical Studies, Springer...

Words formed from justificatory

Questions about justificatory

What does justificatory mean?
Justificatory means providing or related to justification; justificational.
How do you use justificatory in a sentence?
The justificatory statement in the appeal may be lodged at the same time as the appeal itself.
What part of speech is justificatory?
Justificatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce justificatory?
Justificatory is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfəˌkeɪt(ə)ɹi/ (UK).

Words near justificatory in the dictionary

  1. justificationists
  2. justifications
  3. justificative
  4. justificator
  5. justificators
  6. justificatory
  7. justifie
  8. justified
  9. justifiedly
  10. justifiedness
  11. justifier

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