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Definition of Justification

Justification 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. The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer. The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements. 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. Related Definitions: Accused, Act, Adjustment, Also, Answer, As, Be, Being, By, Called, Charged, Conduct, Conformable, Court, Cut, Defense, Did, Disobedience, Duty, Exactly, Fill, For, God, He, His, Hold, In, Is, It, Just, Justice, Justification, Justified, Justifying, Law, Lawful, Line, Make, Making, Of, Or, Party, Place, Prisoner, Proving, Reason, Respect, Right, Showing, So, State, Such, Sufficient, Support, That, The, To, Type, Used, Vindication, Which, Why

Justification Quotations Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. Bertrand Russell The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. Thomas Huxley An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. Kate Adie

Justification Translations justification in French is justification justification in German is Einstellung, Blocksatz justification in Italian is giustificazione justification in Latin is purgatio

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