justificatory
/d͡ʒəˈstɪ.fə.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The Appellant shall, within a further four weeks, definitely declare, by means of a justificatory statement, on what grounds he impeaches the judgment and in which respects he requests the latter to be altered. The justificatory statement in the appeal may be lodged at the same time as the appeal itself."
- "Further, we will have to undertake a critique of the schemes by which state violence justifies itself, and the relation of those justificatory schemes to the effort to maintain its monopoly on violence."
- "Goal abandonment in the case of means-rational agents is precisely like taking a pill that removes both an agent’s goal and the agent’s justificatory basis for achieving that goal […]"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒəˈstɪ.fə.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfəˌkeɪt(ə)ɹi/