Conduct and Justify

Conduct

Conduct verb - To look after and make decisions about.

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Justify and conduct are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Justify" instead a verb "Conduct".

Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.

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Conduct and justify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Conduct" instead a verb "Justify".

They require that when the author describes the character of a personage in his tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description.

Source: Literature / Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Later, in Titans of Chaos, the old one uses it to justify being an Omnicidal Maniac, since he can conduct the souls back after he recreates the universe right.

Source: Psychopomp
While a Lawful Good character may justify breaking his code of conduct by appealing to the greater good that transcends all things, a Lawful Neutral character will not, since the greater good does not enter into it.

Source: Lawful Neutral

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