Unjustify
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 think that every such case must unjustify the agent's commitment to acting justly."
Example
More examples"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 think that every such case must unjustify the agent's commitment to acting justly."
Etymology
From un- + justify.
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