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justification
/ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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What does justification mean?
noun
- A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.
- The forgiveness of sin.
- The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).
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/ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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He began moderately, by finding excuses for Covey, and ending with a full justification of him, and a passionate condemnation of me.
The aspect of this edge of the town was not entirely without justification for the doctor’s hints about desolate moods and environments.
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And this because law as a science painfully sought justification in deduction from long obsolete norms and in the explanation of texts.
When you argue about the nature of God apart from the question of justification, you may be as profound as you like.
The moral justification and ethical necessity of Birth Control need not be empirically based upon the mere approval of experience and custom.