Usage examples (8)

• Clearly, this is the language of a display inscription and not of a diplomatic piece justificative.
• But that it could have been used as a piece justificative, with all its errors, when the Babylonians could at once have refuted it, is incredible.
• Its emphasis on treaties and boundaries has led to the idea that it was compiled from the archives as a sort of diplomatic pièce justificative in a controversy with...
• The article is dignified, reasonable, and entirely predictable, essentially a pièce justificative, adding nothing new to the controversy or to the original essay apart...