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justifiable

adj

Etymology

From Middle French justifiable. By surface analysis, justify + -able.

  1. derived from justifiable

Definitions

  1. That can be justified.

    • Near-synonyms: defensible, excusable

  2. Describing an illegal and intentional act that is nevertheless not blameworthy, for…

    Describing an illegal and intentional act that is nevertheless not blameworthy, for example because its positive consequences outweighed the bad. Distinguished from excusable, describing an involuntary illegal act.

    • justifiable homicide

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at justifiable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at justifiable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at justifiable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA