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    jus·ti·fi·ca·tion
    /ˌjəstəfəˈkāSHən/

    noun

    • 1. the action of showing something to be right or reasonable: "the justification of revolutionary action"
    • 2. the action of declaring or making righteous in the sight of God.

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  2. The meaning of JUSTIFICATION is the act or an instance of justifying something : vindication. How to use justification in a sentence.

  3. a good reason or explanation for something: There is no justification for treating people so badly. It can be said, with some justification, that she is one of the greatest actresses on the English stage today. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Motives and reasons. autotelic. causeless. drive. first principles. from a place of idiom.

  4. Justification definition: a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends. See examples of JUSTIFICATION used in a sentence.

  5. When you offer a justification, you're trying to make something rightor, perhaps, even just. The notion that animals don't have emotions is one of the key justifications for allowing them to suffer.

  6. A justification for something is an acceptable reason or explanation for it. To me the only justification for a zoo is educational. American English : justification / dʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən /

  7. a good reason or explanation for something: There is no justification for treating people so badly. It can be said, with some justification, that she is one of the greatest actresses on the English stage today. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Motives and reasons. autotelic. causeless. drive. first principles. from a place of idiom.

  8. 1. a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies. 2. an act of justifying. 3. the state of being justified.

  9. to show that something is reasonable, right, or true: Her fears of a low voter turnout were justified when fewer than half of the people voted. justification. noun [ C/U ] us / ˌdʒʌs·tə·fɪˈkeɪ·ʃən / [ U ] She said that there was no justification for such rude behavior.

  10. Definition of justification noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  11. justification. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English jus‧ti‧fi‧ca‧tion /ˌdʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ AWL noun [ countable, uncountable] 1 a good and acceptable reason for doing something justification for (doing) something There is no justification for holding her in jail.