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JUSTIFIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins
Classified under:
Similar:
even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))
Domain category:
printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb justify
Context examples:
No captain, sir, would be justified in going to sea at all if he had ground enough to say that.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If they were one day to be your own, Marianne, you would not be justified in what you have done.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I do not mean, however, to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Surely it will offend your readers, and surely that is why the editors are justified in refusing your work.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“It is the one quality which Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His reasoning was justified, for the boat rushed at once into the wind and the hunter sprang aft to take the boat-steerer’s place.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
How gloriously my expedition was justified!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"However," she adds, "we should not feel justified to dump polyethylene deliberately in our environment just because we now know how to biodegrade it."
(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)
To attain this end, are you justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom—a mere conventional impediment which neither your conscience sanctifies nor your judgment approves?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Think not, Walton, that in the last moments of my existence I feel that burning hatred and ardent desire of revenge I once expressed; but I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
