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unjustifying

unjustifying is the present participle and gerund of unjustify.

Meaning of unjustify

Verb

unjustify (third-person singular simple present unjustifies, present participle unjustifying, simple past and past participle unjustified)

  1. 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

Questions about unjustifying

What is unjustifying the present participle and gerund of?
Unjustifying is the present participle and gerund of unjustify.

Words near unjustifying in the dictionary

  1. unjustified
  2. unjustifiedly
  3. unjustifiedness
  4. unjustifies
  5. unjustify
  6. unjustifying
  7. unjustly
  8. unjustness
  9. unjustnesses
  10. unjuvenile
  11. unk

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