justificatory

adjective

jus·ti·fi·ca·to·ry ˌjə-ˈsti-fi-kə-ˌtȯr-ē

ˈjə-stə-fə-ˌkā-tə-rē

: tending or serving to justify : vindicatory

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That was simply justificatory nonsense. —

Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Sep. 2020 No work is complete without a justificatory explanation stapled to it; shape and color and line are hardly anyone’s concern. —

Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 June 2021 Yet to the extent that Hilditch is making a moral case for our rights, which again is unclear, that may be his ultimate justificatory argument. —

Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020 Is Hilditch posing a historical or a theoretical (i.e., justificatory or normative) question? —

Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020 That indeed is how the Founders went about the matter, in the state-of-nature justificatory tradition. —

Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020