JUSTIFICATION
\d͡ʒˌʌstɪfɪkˈe͡ɪʃən], \dʒˌʌstɪfɪkˈeɪʃən], \dʒ_ˌʌ_s_t_ɪ_f_ɪ_k_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of JUSTIFICATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
By Princeton University
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the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification.
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The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.
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The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements.
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Adjustment of type by spacing it so as to make it exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment.
By Oddity Software
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The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification.
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The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.
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The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements.
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Adjustment of type by spacing it so as to make it exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Vindication: absolution: a plea of sufficient reason for.
By Daniel Lyons
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Act of justifying; vindication.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Act of justifying ; vindication ; defence ; absolution ; - remission of sin, guilt, and punishment ; an act of God’s free grace, by which a sinner is forgiven, counted and dealt with as righteous, through the faith of Christ.
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Defence, maintenance, vindication, support; deliverance by pardon from sins past.
By Thomas Sheridan