Synonyms:
justification
Meaning: something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
Synonyms:
justification
Meaning: a statement in explanation of some action or belief
Usage examples
Henry could find no justification for such treatment.
Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing.
Told her that. The word justification moved her admiration--and envy too, I thought.
Most myths have a certain justification in their beauty, in their symbolism of high truth.
In the face of desperate necessity, there may be justification for the most desperate remedy.
"Work is not everything to a man," he says; "it is not true that justification lies in work . . .
Still it is not on them that our justification is based, but on faith; and yet they ought not on that account to be despised or neglected.
Lord Darcy, though he pleaded compulsion, and appealed for his justification to a long life spent in the service of the crown, was beheaded on Tower Hill.
It is not from works that we are set free by the faith of Christ, but from the belief in works, that is from foolishly presuming to seek justification through works.
The existence and justification of such beliefs--for the inductive principle, as we shall see, is not the only example--raises some of the most difficult and most debated problems of philosophy.