Word Meanings - JUSTIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer. (more info) 1. The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to

Additional info about word: JUSTIFICATION

The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer. (more info) 1. 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. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JUSTIFICATION)

• Apology
• Defense
• justification
• plea
• exculpation
• excuse
• vindication
• acknowledgment
• confession
• Resistance
• protection
• rampart
• bulwark
• apology
• shelter
• guard
• Plea
• Excuse
• ground
• defence
• entreaty
• Sanctification
• Justification
• absolution
• consecration
• holiness

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of JUSTIFICATION)

• Expose
• surrender
• betray
• imperil
• endanger

Related words: (words related to JUSTIFICATION)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• MELANCHOLINESS
  The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.