Close in meaning to an explanation, a justification is specifically for defending or explaining an event. The idea that he was just trying to scare his little sister was a pretty weak justification for the elaborate gag.
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;
Noun
the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
Noun
something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
Noun
a statement in explanation of some action or belief
n.
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.
n.
The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason
why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to
answer.
n.
The act of justifying, or the state of being
justified, in respect to God's requirements.
n.
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.
Justification
I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.2.
Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
In such righteousness To them by faith imputed, they may find Justification toward God, and peace Of conscience.4.
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;
Usage Examples
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe 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.
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
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