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justification
Found in thesaurus: condition, circumstance, consideration, account, explanation, vindication, exoneration
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justification
n.
something which excuses or defends; vindication, support, defense, explanation, reason; adjustment of words and letters to make them exactly fill a line of type
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Justification
Justification may refer to:
- Theory of justification, a part of epistemology that attempts to understand the justification of propositions and beliefs
- Justification (jurisprudence), defence in a prosecution for a criminal offense
- Justification (theology), God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God
- Justification (typesetting), a kind of typographic alignment
- Formal proof, an object that justifies the validity of a formalized statement
- Justification may also refer to ad hoc hypotheses and explanations
- Rationalization (making excuses), a phenomenon in psychology
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justification
Noun
1. something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
(hypernym) circumstance, condition, consideration
(derivation) apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
2. a statement in explanation of some action or belief
(hypernym) explanation, account
(hyponym) cause, reason, grounds
(derivation) absolve, justify, free
3. the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
(hypernym) vindication, exoneration
(derivation) apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
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justification
nf.
justification, apology, excuse; explanation, substantiation, vindication
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justification
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