The corpus record — Latin

justĭfĭcātĭo

justĭfĭcātĭo · f

justification

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What it meant

justĭfĭcātĭo — Lewis & Short

justĭfĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.justifico,

I justification (late Lat.), Salv. Avar. 3, 2; Aug. Civ. Dei, 16, 36.—

II (As if from justa-facio.) Due formality: erit haec filiis Israel justificatio judiciorum, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 16, 1, 10: juxta omnes caerimonias et justificationes, Vulg. Num. 9, 3 and 14; id. 2 Par. 19, 10; id. Heb. 9, 1.

Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.