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self-ˈjustifier
[self- 1 c.]
†1. = self-justiciary.
1655Baxter Quaker's Catech. 9 And yet was he counted a proud self-justifier.
2. Printing. A self-justifying type-machine.
In recent Dicts.
So self-ˈjustified ppl. a. (Printing), arranged by means of automatic justifying mechanism; self-ˈjustifying ppl. a. (whence -ˈjustifyingly adv.).
1897Brit. Printer 268 When followed by a like variation of the three remaining spaces between words in the line, the latter, when assembled, will be *self-justified.
1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxiii. 275 What *self-justifying minds have the meekest of these women! 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 595 What have we spoken against Thee? is the self-justifying question which Malachi records of them. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v., A self-justifying type-setting machine.
1891Meredith One of our Conq. II. x. 257 She thought, as an observer; and *self-justifyingly thought on. |