Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to justify; vindicatory; defensory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective providing
justification .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
- adjective providing justification
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Examples
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Following hard on the ‘perils of pop philosophy’ article, I find it ironic that this commentary veers hard into the raw self-justificatory reductio that was lambasted only yesterday.
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Nor can a “paradigm” be wrong, if you want to separate the hegemony from its justificatory strategies.
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He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency.
'A Churchillian Defense of the Markets' Brian M. Carney 2010
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He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency.
'A Churchillian Defense of the Markets' Brian M. Carney 2010
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To outline the justification:(1) The police reasonably believe that torturing the terrorist will probably save thousands of innocent lives; (2) the police know that there is no other way to save those lives; (3) the threat to life is imminent; (4) the thousands about to be murdered are innocent -- the terrorist has no good, let alone decisive, justificatory moral reason for murdering them as if one could possibly exist -- RW.
Russ Wellen: Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb (Read: Nuclear) Scenario Russ Wellen 2010
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He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency.
'A Churchillian Defense of the Markets' Brian M. Carney 2010
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To outline the justification:(1) The police reasonably believe that torturing the terrorist will probably save thousands of innocent lives; (2) the police know that there is no other way to save those lives; (3) the threat to life is imminent; (4) the thousands about to be murdered are innocent -- the terrorist has no good, let alone decisive, justificatory moral reason for murdering them as if one could possibly exist -- RW.
Russ Wellen: Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb (Read: Nuclear) Scenario Russ Wellen 2010
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Exactly, this is all an overlong discussion of the self-justificatory strategies used by people with a vested interest in making their industry relevant and therefore profitable.
Focus Group: Undecided Voters Care Much More About Character Than Issues 2009
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If they are not wholly arbitrary, there must be a rationale, a theory, a justificatory structure for distinguishing what precedents are to be overturned and what precedents are to be respected.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Commentary on the Briefing in McDonald v. City of Chicago 2009
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For this reason, I think that the self-ownership thesis cannot be justified by natural law or ethical intuitionism, but instead must be understood as a generalization about a whole set of intuitions or specifications of the natural law as a contractualist, I think it must be justified as a rough generalization of a wide array of justificatory relationships.
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