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How to pronounce justification in English?

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Type Words
Type of account, explanation
Has types vindication, cause, defence, defense, grounds, reason
Derivation justify
Type Words
Type of condition, consideration, circumstance
Derivation justify


he considered misrule a justification for revolution.
Type Words
Type of vindication, exoneration
Derivation justify


the justification of barbarous means by holy ends.

Examples of justification

justification
Why then does Blair now claim that regime change was a legitimate justification?
From the time.com
However, this is also used as a cynical justification for underpaying employees.
From the forbes.com
The only justification fro the claim of CO2 based AGW is the computer modelling.
From the independent.co.uk
It offers no justification for a leap toward government control of asset prices.
From the online.wsj.com
The reasons are valid but not justification for keeping grandma at arm's length.
From the dispatch.com
I can't judge from here whether he had any legal justification for walking away.
From the dailyherald.com
True, the stakes are higher, but still, that's no justification for ref-bashing.
From the dailyherald.com
The Pentagon's rhetorical justification for this expansion is deeply misleading.
From the infowars.com
I am in the midst of reading Conrad Black's latest volume of self-justification.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
  • A statement in explanation of some action or belief
  • The act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
  • (justificatory) defensive: attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
  • (justificatory) justificative: providing justification
  • (justified) having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins
  • Theory of justification is a part of epistemology that attempts to understand the justification of propositions and beliefs. Epistemologists are concerned with various epistemic features of belief, which include the ideas of justification, warrant, rationality, and probability. ...
  • Justification can be a defense in a prosecution for a criminal offense. When an act is justified, a person is not criminally liable even though his act would otherwise constitute an offense.
  • In Christian theology, justification is God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God. The concept of justification occurs in many books of the Old and New Testaments.