- a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- an act of justifying: The painter's justification of his failure to finish on time didn't impress me.
- the state of being justified.
- the act of God whereby humankind is made or accounted just, or free from guilt or penalty of sin.
- the spacing of words and letters within a line of type so that all full lines in a column have even margins both on the left and on the right.
- reasonable grounds for complaint, defence, etc
- the act of justifying; proof, vindication, or exculpation
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- the act of justifying
- the process of being justified or the condition of having been justified
- the doctrine that God vindicates only those who repent and believe in Jesus
- the process of adjusting interword spacing in text or data so that both right and left margins are straight
- the process of moving data right or left so that the first or last character occurs in a predefined position
