JUSTIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does justified mean? 

• JUSTIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective JUSTIFIED has 1 sense:

1. having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins

  Familiarity information: JUSTIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUSTIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins

Similar:

even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))

Domain category:

printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)

 Context examples 

But I am justified in taking my own line—and I will.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Which were very well justified,” observed Holmes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You did not love him; nothing could have justified your accepting him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She cannot be justified in it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We even scouted a belief that we saw justified under our very eyes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

White Fang, listening to the wordy war and watching the angry gestures, knew that his act was justified.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“So far we are justified,” said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aylward's words were speedily justified, for even as he spoke the two knights met in the centre of the lists.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All his sanguine expectations, all his confidence had been justified.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In one point she was fully justified.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)