English

Verb

rationalizing

1. present participle 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.