rationalizing

English

Verb

rationalizing

1. present participle and gerund of rationalize

Noun

rationalizing (plural rationalizings)

1. The act of one who rationalizes.
   • 1954, Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, page 140:

     But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions.