Justified

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Middle English (in the senses ‘administer justice to’ and ‘inflict a judicial penalty on’): from Old French justifier, from Christian Latin justificare ‘do justice to’, from Latin justus (see just).

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justified (adj.)

1580s, "made right," past-participle adjective from justify. Typesetting sense is from 1670s.