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
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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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A plea of sufficient reason; vindication; defence; deliverance by pardon from past sins; in theol., the treating of sinful man as if he were just or righteous in the sight of God, for the sake of the merits of Christ Jesus.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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
