justifying

English

Verb

justifying

1. present participle and gerund of justify

Noun

justifying (plural justifyings)

1. A process of justification.
   • 1829, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, page 562:

     So very precocious was the youth's sagacity, and premature his opinions; but of course, so surrounded, so employed, hearing of nothing but oppressions, and complainings, and justifyings, the bias was inevitable.