Synonyms:
justify, vindicate
Meaning: show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim"
Usage examples
Circumscribed by the character of his country and his age, the moralist must learn to vindicate his principles in that position.
Having thus expressed their determination to vindicate the law, they held a meeting, and cited him before it to declare his intentions.
Those men who survived those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them--those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received.
The servants also, in most families, eat this kind of bread, and have a different kind of food from their masters, which, in spite of all the arguments I have heard to vindicate the custom, appears to me a remnant of barbarism.