单词 | justifiability |
释义 | justifiabilityn. The quality or fact of being justifiable. Cf. earlier justifiableness n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > quality of being justifiable warrantablenessa1586 justifiablenessc1612 justifiability1795 1795 M. Cove Ess. Revenues Church of Eng. i. 26 The foundations and justifiability of even limited Monarchies..are both disputed and denied. 1843 Q. Rev. Mar. 323/2 Lord Ashburton, without giving up a jot of our justifiability in the whole of that affair, has..satisfied the cabinet of Washington. 1884 Law Times 6 Sept. 320/2 The justifiability of hostile acts unpreceded by declaration of war. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 921 Attacks..so slight as to make the justifiability of any operation a matter of question. 1918 A. Bennett Pretty Lady xxxviii. 314 She saw by the lifting of his eyebrows..that he secretly admitted the justifiability of her summons to him. a1949 H. S. Sullivan Psychiatric Interview (1954) iv. 85 It is important to establish the justifiability of the patient's seeing the psychiatrist. 1997 W. I. Miller Anat. Disgust ix. 211 The contempt was there with a vengeance, in spite of my lack of confidence about its justifiability. 2006 J. White Intelligence, Destiny, & Educ. Introd. 1 Philosophical doubts about the justifiability of both these core beliefs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795 |
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