Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing: The wooden wedge once used in old forms of hand-press to keep together parts about to separate.
- noun One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or upholds; also, one who pardons and absolves from guilt and punishment.
- noun In printing: The workman who makes of just length, and with just spaces between the words, the lines of type set by a type-setting machine.
- noun An attachment to a type-setting machine which does automatically some or all of the work of justification.
- noun In type-founding, the workman who fits up a suite of strikes or unjustified matrices for use on one mold, making each and all just or uniform in height as to body, of even line as to face, and of proper nearness to mated letters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
justifies (some belief or action).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
Etymologies
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Examples
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We were lovers before we were parents, know what a fraudulent justifier love can be.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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We were lovers before we were parents, know what a fraudulent justifier love can be.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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"Then you will be homeless and extremely well dressed," says the consumer-justifier jabber, who clearly views a life on the streets – as it views everything – as yet another unexplored fashion opportunity.
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The consumer-justifier jabber in my head is in overdrive.
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We were lovers before we were parents, know what a fraudulent justifier love can be.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I too have a built in editor with the added bonus of a whispering justifier.
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We were lovers before we were parents, know what a fraudulent justifier love can be.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I come from a white man's Christianity which, as you write in your Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, is the; "justifier of the most appalling barbarity, and a dark shelter under which the darkest, grossest and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection."
Frank Schaeffer: An Open Letter to Frederick Douglass, Upon the Inauguration of President Obama 2009
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Yoo got where he was because he was a “justifier”, not a sharp analyst of the law.
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For purposes of showing that utilitarian envy management is not a universal justifier of redistribution, an example from any time or place would have done the trick.
An Envy Tax?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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