Which preposition to use with justify

in Occurrences 566%

I was on a visit to Jarsey, a short time ago, and if ever a man was justified in cussin' the day he ever sot foot onto the classick red shores of New Jarsey, (which soil, by the way, is so greasy that all the red-headed New Jarsey gals use it for hair ile, while for greasin' a pancake griddle it can't be beat,) it was the undersined.

of Occurrences 31%

Such words have sometimes been used as terms of reproach, but wisdom can only be justified of her children.

on Occurrences 30%

This concentration may indeed be justified on other and independent grounds; but the implied supposition that, the highest sanctity is incompatible with any pure and well-ordered natural affection, however intense, is certainly ill-sounding, and hardly reconcilable with the divinest examples and precepts.

to Occurrences 22%

No further correspondence with the tenor of the unfinished English story is intended than the Adapter will endeavor to justify to his own conscience, and that of his reader, by at least one unmistakable foreshadowing circumstance of the original publication, which, strangely enough, has been wholly overlooked, thus far, by those speculating upon the fate of the missing hero.]

by Occurrences 19%

be justified by having it proved to all the world that God had not forsaken Him?

before Occurrences 17%

His righteousness was established, and he was justified before God.

from Occurrences 10%

Mother, thy agony of care He justifies from ill; Thou wilt not yield?He grants the prayer

for Occurrences 9%

And if a change of religion could be justified for worldly betterment, I would advise it without hesitation.

as Occurrences 7%

Surely if Moses had executed martial law on them with his own hand, he would have been as perfectly justified as a captain of a ship of war or a general of an army would be now.

at Occurrences 6%

He must hold it to be so evil that the wrongs it does outweigh the benefit it confers, for only so is non-co-operation to be justified at the bar of conscience or of Christ."

under Occurrences 4%

If the power to arrange under the former law authorized the removal of one officer from a particular station and the location of another in it, reducing the latter from a higher to an inferior grade, with the advice and consent of the Senate, it surely justifies under the latter law the arrangement of these officers, with a like sanction, to offices of new creation, from which no one had been removed and to which no one had a just claim.

past Occurrences 1%

And yet she must keep up so much reserve, as will justify past inflexibilities.

like Occurrences 1%

The refusal or omission of one State to pass such laws was urged as a reason to justify like conduct in others, and thus the Government was soon at a stand.

without Occurrences 1%

Having justified without shadow of argument her own incredible proceeding, she judged everything and everybody by some new standard, mysteriously attained.

Through Occurrences 1%

Sufficient troth that we shall rise Deposed, at length, the grave To that new marriage, justified Through Calvaries of Love!

out Occurrences 1%

" Bolts and bars were what the gallant Greek men kept their wives under, hence this custom too is here slyly justified out of a woman's mouth.

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