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justifiedly en · ADV

Etymology

From justified + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a justified manner; with good cause.
   • If I know something is so, then it is true, whereas I can justifiedly believe something false. 2010, Robert Audi, Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Routledge, page 213:
   • Here Leslie shows his unhappiness with the imaginative treatment of angels in Paradise Lost, a treatment he perhaps justifiedly thought people read as truth. 1970, “Leslie on Milton's theology”, in John T. Shawcross, editor, John Milton, Volume 1: 1628-1731, Psychology Press, published 1995, page 117:
   • The patient justifiedly becomes uneasy and rebellious under very hot and cold fire and the attempted desiccation is tedious, painful and inoperative[...]. 1895, Chas. C. Southwell, “Compressed Air in Dentistry”, in The Dental Review, volume 9, number 7, Chicago, page 440:

Forms

Synonyms

rightly

Translations (2)

de berechtigterweise (Translations) · de gerechtfertigterweise (Translations)