Hypertext Webster Gateway: "justifiable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Justifiable \Jus"ti*fi`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. justifiable. See
{Justify}.]
Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.
Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men.
--Milton.
Syn: Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable;
exculpable; authorizable. -- {Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness}, n.
-- {Jus"ti*fi`a*bly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
justifiable
adj : capable of being justified
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