Clearly, this is the language of a display inscription and not of a diplomatic piece justificative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assyrian Historiography] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assyrian Historiography] Reference

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 Babylonia over the possession of a definite territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assyrian Historiography] Reference

The article is dignified, reasonable, and entirely predictable, essentially a pièce justificative, adding nothing new to the controversy or to the original essay apart from the substitution of DNA for the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a test of scientific literacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific Imagination] Reference

There is no justificative formula for its existence any more than for any other artistic achievement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Life and Letters] Reference

Unconsciously insincere, like the majority of people in their justificative confessions, Balzac often allowed his heart to intrude where it had no business to be present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac]

I am loth to rake up any of these ancient scandals from their well-deserved oblivion; but I must make good a statement which may seem overcharged to the present generation, and there is no piece justificative more apt for the purpose or more worthy of such dishonour than the article in the Quarterly Review for July.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work]

The full details of what had happened could have been told only by one or other of themselves; by Uthwart best, in the somewhat matter - of-fact and prosaic journal he had managed to keep from the first, noting there the incidents of each successive day, as if in anticipation of its possible service by way of pièce justificative, should such become necessary, attesting hour by hour their single - hearted devotion to soldierly duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference