"justifier" meaning in English

See justifier in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: justifiers [plural]
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  1. (chiefly philosophy) One who, or that which, justifies some belief or action. Translations (one who justifies): iustificator [masculine] (Latin), rättfärdiggörare [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. One who pardons and absolves from guilt and punishment.
    Sense id: en-justifier-en-noun-xjsiPBQT Categories (other): English entries with etymology trees Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 35 24 41
  3. (computing, typography) A machine, program or algorithm that justifies text by aligning it.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: self-justifier

Inflected forms

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