justificatory
61palliative — I (abating) adjective allaying, alleviating, alleviative, assuaging, assuasive, beneficial, calmative, consolatory, corrective, curative, easeful, helpful, lenient, drudge, mitigating, mitigative, modifying, modulatory, mollifying, pacifying,… …
62apologetic — Synonyms and related words: abject, apologia, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, conscience stricken, contrite, defense, excusatory, excusing, expiatory, extenuating, extenuative, humble, humbled,… …
63extenuating — Synonyms and related words: altering, apologetic, assuasive, bounding, diminishing, excusatory, excusing, extenuative, extenuatory, justificatory, justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory,… …
64palliative — Synonyms and related words: alleviating, alleviative, alleviator, allowance, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, assuager, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cleansing, color,… …
65refuting — Synonyms and related words: apologetic, confounding, confutative, confuting, contradictory, contrary, excusatory, excusing, extenuating, extenuative, justificatory, justifying, palliative, refutative, refutatory, rehabilitative, vindicative,… …
66apologetic — a·pol·o·get·ic || ə‚pÉ’lÉ™ dÊ’etɪk adj. sorry, regretful, remorseful; justificatory, defensive …
67apologetical — kl adj. sorry, regretful, remorseful; justificatory, defensive …
68Manifest Destiny — A slogan of American territorial expansion that was coined in the 1840s. Justi ficatory rhetoric throughout the continental expansion of the United States was clothed in various garbs, of which Manifest Destiny is the best known, and to invoke …
69Foundationalism — any justification or knowledge theory in epistemology that holds that beliefs are justified (known) when they are based on basic beliefs (also called foundational beliefs). Basic beliefs are beliefs that are self justifying or self evident, and… …
70justify — [ dʒʌstɪfʌɪ] verb (justifies, justifying, justified) 1》 prove to be right or reasonable. ↘be a good reason for. 2》 Theology declare or make righteous in the sight of God. 3》 Printing [often as adjective justified] adjust (text or a line of… …
