rationalizing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of rationalize

noun

  1. The act of one who rationalizes.
    But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions. 1954, Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, page 140

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