justify

To demonstrate or prove to be just, right, or valid.

To free (a human) of the guilt and penalty attached to grievous sin. Used of God.

To demonstrate sufficient legal reason for (an action taken).

To prove to be qualified as a bondsman.

To format (a paragraph, for example) so that the lines of text begin and end evenly at a straight margin.

To prove or show to be just or conformable to reason, justice, duty, law, or propriety; vindicate; warrant; uphold.

To declare innocent or blameless; absolve; acquit; specifically, to free from the guilt or penalty of sin; reconcile to God.

To prove (any one) to be.

To make exact; cause to fit or be adapted, as the parts of a complex object; adjust, as lines or columns in printing.