Justification may refer to: * Justification (epistemology), a property of beliefs that a person has good reasons for holding *

Justification (jurisprudence) Justification is a defense in a criminal case, by which a defendant who committed the crime as defined, claims they did no wrong, because committing the crime advanced some social interest or vindicated a right of such importance that it outweigh ...

, defence in a prosecution for a criminal offenses *

Justification (theology) In Christian theology, justification is the event or process by which sinners are made or declared to be righteous in the sight of God. The means of justification is an area of significant difference amongst the diverse theories of atonement ...

, God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God *

Justification (typesetting) In typesetting and page layout, alignment or range is the setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column (measure), table cell, or tab (and often to an image above it or under it). The type alignment setting is sometimes ref ...

, a kind of typographic alignment *

Rationalization (making excuses) Rationalization is a defense mechanism (ego defense) in which apparent logical reasons are given to justify behavior that is motivated by unconscious instinctual impulses. It is an attempt to find reasons for behaviors, especially one's own. Ration ...

, a phenomenon in psychology

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