Synonyms for justification
ˌdʒʌs tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃənjus·ti·fi·ca·tion

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1. justification

   All these words express one's answer to a charge of wrong or error that is or might be made. Apology has undergone a remarkable change from its old sense of a valiant defense — as in Justin Martyr's Apologies for the Christian faith — to its present meaning of humble confession and concession. He who offers an apology admits himself, at least technically and seemingly, in the wrong. An apology is for what one has done or left undone; an excuse may be for what one proposes to do or leave undone as well; as, one sends beforehand his excuse for not accepting an invitation; if he should fail either to be present or to excuse himself, an apology would be in order. An excuse for a fault is an attempt at partial justification; as, one alleges haste as an excuse for carelessness. Confession is a full acknowledgment of wrong, generally of a grave wrong, with or without apology or excuse. Plea ranges in sense from a prayer for favor or pardon to an attempt at full vindication. Defense, exculpation, justification, and vindication are more properly antonyms than synonyms of apology in its modern sense, and should be so given, but for their connection with its historic usage. Compare CONFESS; DEFENSE.

   Synonyms:
   acknowledgment, apology, confession, defense, exculpation, excuse, plea, vindication

   Antonyms:
   accusation, censure, charge, complaint, condemnation, imputation, injury, insult, offense, wrong

   Preposition:
   An apology to the guest for the oversight would be fitting.

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1. justification

   Synonyms:
   vindication, apology, defence, advocacy, maintenance, plea, exoneration, exculpation

   Antonyms:
   condemnation, censure, conviction, protest, abandonment, inculpation, recrimination, implication, aggravation

Princeton's WordNet

1. justificationnoun

   something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary

   "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"

2. justificationnoun

   a statement in explanation of some action or belief

3. justificationnoun

   the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning

   "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller

Matched Categories

1. • Circumstance
   • Explanation
   • Vindication

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1. justificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   vindication, defence, exculpation, exoneration

2. justificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Theol.) absolution, sanctification, remission of sin

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1. justificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   vindication, exuplpation, exoneration, defense

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1. List of paraphrases for "justification":

   rationale, substantiation, reason, excuse, justifying, grounds, explanation, justify, justifiability, justifications, argument

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1. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   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.

2. Martin Luther:

   There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

3. Attorney General Matt Whitaker:

   I don't expect that there's a legal justification for Title 42. There's certainly a political justification, this administration desperately wants it to continue in place no matter what they might say in court filings, because it's really about the only tool that they can use.

4. Art Sims:

   This is the doctrine of justification. It is the wonderful fact that God imputes His righteousness to us and makes us immune to the condemnation of sin. Being justified, no sin can ever be imputed against us.

5. Eric Siddall:

   There has to be a legal justification for it. And a legal justification isn't simply a pronouncement from your leader, it has to actually be based upon the law. And those were the fundamental problems we had with what he did and how [his directives] contradicted the law and confused the law.