unjustify
unjustify verb: to remove or negate the justification for.
Verb
unjustify (third-person singular simple present unjustifies, present participle unjustifying, simple past and past participle unjustified)
- To remove or negate the justification for.
- If we were to come to see justice as, like love, something which involves the transformation of existing interests and the creation of new, shared, interests, then we would be less inclined to judge every case of suffering through justice as a case of unmitigated disaster, and less incliend to...2000, S. Mendus, Feminism and Emotion: Readings in Moral and Political Philosophy
- The fact that our best-justified moral judgments and standards are not accepted by others on our grounds for them does not unjustify us in holding them.2007, Margaret Urban Walker, Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics
Forms of unjustify
| third-person singular present | unjustifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | unjustifying |
| past participle | unjustified |
| past | unjustified |
Origin of unjustify
From un- + justify.
Questions about unjustify
- What does unjustify mean?
- Unjustify means to remove or negate the justification for.
- What part of speech is unjustify?
- Unjustify is a verb.
- What is the past tense of unjustify?
- The past tense of unjustify is unjustified.
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