单词 | justificator |
释义 | justificatorn. A person who offers justification; a justifier.In quot. 1670 tentatively equated with compurgator n., apparently by a misunderstanding of the original (see etymological note). ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > one who justifier1560 justificator1625 righteouser1866 1625 T. James Manuduction Divinitie 21 Christ is now become our onely Sauiour, Redeemer, & Iustificator. 1660 T. Pierce Impartial Inq. Nature Sin i. 8 Unless our Iustificator is thicker of sense and understanding then all men else,..his prevarications must needs be wilfull. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Iustificators seem to signify Compurgators. 1795 M. Edgeworth Ess. Self-justification 40 in Lett. for Lit. Ladies To one of your class of justificators, this is the highest offence. 1845 Lit. Gaz. 29 Mar. 193/1 His [sc. Napoleon's] departure from Egypt may be cited as a sample of the apologist and justificator. 1874 W. E. Youngman For Husks, Food vi. 60 Christ is our justificator;..our works are no good as ours, but only as the works of Christ. 1906 F. Macdonald J. J. Rousseau II. 251 Verret..was left, forgotten—a phantom justificator and avenger. 1999 Hist. Philos. Q. 16 454 Both those who say that slavery should have existed—i.e., historical justificators—and those who assert the contrary are misguided. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1625 |
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