KJV Dictionary Definition: justifiable

justifiable

JUST'IFIABLE, a. from justify. That may be proved to be just; that may be vindicated on principles of law, reason, rectitude or propriety; defensible; vindicable. No breach of law or moral obligation is justifiable. The execution of a malefactor in pursuance of a sentence of court, is justifiable homicide.

justifiableness

JUST'IFIABLENESS, n. The quality of being justifiable; rectitude; possibility of being defended or vindicated.

justifiably

JUST'IFIABLY, adv. In a manner that admits of vindication or justification; rightly.

justifier

JUST'IFIER, n. One who justifies; one who vindicates,supports or defends.

1. He who pardons and absolves from guilt and punishment.

That he might be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. Rom.3.

justify

JUST'IFY, v.t. L. justus, just,and facio, to make.

1. To prove or show to be just, or conformable to law, right, justice, propriety or duty; to defend or maintain; to vindicate as right. We cannot justify disobedience or ingratitude to our Maker. We cannot justify insult or incivility to our fellow men. Intemperance, lewdness, profaneness and dueling are in no case to be justified.

2. In theology, to pardon and clear form guilt; to absolve or acquit from guilt and merited punishment, and to accept as righteous on account of the merits of the Savior, or by the application of Christ's atonement to the offender.

3. To cause another to appear comparatively righteous, or less guilty than one's self. Ezek. 16.

4. To judge rightly of.

Wisdom is justified by her children. Matt.11.

5. To accept as just and treat with favor. James 2.

JUST'IFY, v.i. In printing, to agree; to suit; to conform exactly; to form an even surface or true line with something else. Types of different sizes will not justify with each other.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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