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1571 R. Cavendish Image Nature & Grace x. f. 116^v Whosoeuer is by regeneration once iustifyed, hee can neuer agayne be vniustifyed.

1602 J. Hull Arte Christian saylinge To Rdr. sig. A5 Pride and vaine glory..vniustified the Pharisies.

1646 H. Hammond Severall Tracts 31 In the same proportion that any such act of sin doth unjustify, it doth unsanctify also.

1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 250 No following sin shall unjustifie him.

1835 Church in Army vii. 91 If once we are justified by God himself, none could get above him to un-justify.

1872 Oneida Circular 25 Mar. 98/1 Christ is laboring to justify, and the Devil..is squarely pitted against him, laboring to un-justify.

1996 T. Evans Promise iii. 71 When you become a Christian, you become one of God's elect, His chosen. Who is going to ‘unjustify’ you?

1875 Calcutta Rev. 60 226 It is difficult to see why the fact that India approximates more nearly than other countries to the notion of an ideal State in the former respect, should necessitate or unjustify a departure from that ideal in the latter.

1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 5/1 Its determination to unjustify any charge of claptrap.

1915 Mediator Oct. 15 Public utilities are in their nature monopolies..only to a slight degree, wholly unjustifying the practical confiscation of the properties which has supervened.

1988 Philos. 63 333 Failure to attain a particular end serves to unjustify the political moralist, but does not unjustify the moral politician, who still has the assurance that his aim was the right one.

2014 C. Cowley Moral Responsibility i. v. 132 We cannot speak of the abandonment as justified..for further events might yet go on to un-justify it!