Used in a Sentence

justifications

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for justifications.

Editorial note

There are (very good) technical justifications for changing the framework this way, but they sit alongside the political and economic justifications.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(Christianity, uncountable) The forgiveness of sin.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of justifications gathered in one view.

noun

(Christianity, uncountable) The forgiveness of sin.

noun

(countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.

noun

(typography, uncountable) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for justifications.

noun

(Christianity, uncountable) The forgiveness of sin.

noun

(countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.

noun

(typography, uncountable) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).

Example sentences

1

There are (very good) technical justifications for changing the framework this way, but they sit alongside the political and economic justifications.

2

Changes where the rubber meets the road (IT and DevOps) take years of hard evidence, infrastructure cost, justifications, etc.

3

Enough that whenever it happens, there are plenty of people keen to manufacture justifications for it being the dead person's fault.

4

That's a pretty unusual axiom that most people don't subscribe to, and it's orthogonal to disagreements over justifications for involuntary taxes.

5

Take the answer as fact (you can worry about outliers later), and take the reasons and justifications with a grain of salt.

6

There's the obvious ones: racist, homophobic and transphobic justification for example, but also less common, also harmful vapid justifications.

7

So, it seems Apple's justifications were more similar to my own than different.

8

Every hour you spend meeting a potential client, send emails, and writing justifications is an hour you could have sold to someone else.

9

Conflict thrives off of superfluity: superfluous methods, superfluous justifications, and superfluous issues.

10

You don't really hear many justifications or downplaying of nazism from average German citizens, but you really do hear downplaying of it all here.

11

Unless we're going to reduce everything we spend time on down to utilitarian justifications, that's all the reason I need.

12

Totalitarian states have all kinds of justifications for being.

Quote examples

1

There's a variety of justifications, such as "banks are evil anyway" or invoking Plunkitt, but they just never really sat with me.

2

Market a stand-alone pollution sensor with "health" justifications?

3

"Other people are data-thieves too!" and "We've been stealing data from for a long time" are not justifications for MS's current bad behavior.

4

And, for all your talk about premises, justifications and strict logic, you're fantastically excluding the middle ground, jumping to "no regulation of marriage," thus ignoring reality to play consequentialist.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use justifications in a sentence?

There are (very good) technical justifications for changing the framework this way, but they sit alongside the political and economic justifications.

What does justifications mean?

(Christianity, uncountable) The forgiveness of sin.

What part of speech is justifications?

justifications is commonly used as noun.