self-justificatoryadj.

1817 T. J. Wooler Appeal to Citizens of London 7 The reply to all these arbitrary and self-justificatory statements, was the reiteration of the charge.

1857 A. Hall Life & Char. Rev. S. Hall ix. 346 These lines might have been penned with a self-justificatory reference to the criticisms passed upon his own writings.

1901 Classical Rev. July 328/2 It is just at the point at which customary religion becomes markedly self-conscious and self-justificatory that the student of savage beliefs comes to the end of his clues.

1958 Jrnl. Philos. 24 Apr. 370 The ethical rule is rational, necessary, and self-justificatory.

2002 A. K. Giri Conversat. & Transformations xi. 210 Embodiment of responsibility requires..going beyond the self-justificatory world of freedom itself.