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<hw>Jus`ti*fi*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>justificatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>justification</ets>. See <er>Justify</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, arguments in <ex>justification</ex> of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits <ex>justification</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>I hope, for my brother's <b>justification</b>, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements.</def>

<blockquote>Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our <b>justification</b>. <i>Rom. iv. 25.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In such righteousness To them by faith imputed, they may find <b>Justification</b> toward God, and peace Of conscience. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

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<hw>Jus*tif"i*ca*tive</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>justificatif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Having power to justify; justificatory.</def>

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<hw>Jus"ti*fi*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>justificator</ets>: cf. F. <ets>justificateur</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who justifies or vindicates; a justifier.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

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<hw>Jus*tif"i*ca*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.</def>

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<hw>Jus"ti*fi`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves.</def>

<blockquote><b>Justifiers</b> of themselves and hypocrites. <i>Strype.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>That he might be just, and the <b>justifier</b> of him which believeth in Jesus. <i>Rom. iii. 26.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Justify</h1> <Xpage=807>

<hw>Jus"ti*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Justified</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Justifying</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>justifier</ets>, L. <ets>justificare</ets>; <ets>justus</ets> just + <ets>-ficare</ets> (in comp.) to make. See <er>Just</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, and <er>-fy</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.</def>

<blockquote>That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And <b>justify</b> the ways of God to men. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Unless the oppression is so extreme as to <b>justify</b> revolution, it would not <b>justify</b> the evil of breaking up a government. <i>E. Everett.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear.</def>

<blockquote>I can not <b>justify</b> whom the law condemns. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.</def>

<blockquote>By him all that believe are <b>justified</b> from all things, from which ye could not be <b>justified</b> by the law of Moses. <i>Acts xiii. 39.</i></blockquote>