different between justifying vs rationalizing

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justifying

justifying (plural justifyings)

A process of justification.
- 1829, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine (page 562)
  So very precocious was the youth's sagacity, and premature his opinions; but of course, so surrounded, so employed, hearing of nothing but oppressions, and complainings, and justifyings, the bias was inevitable.

rationalizing

rationalizing (plural rationalizings)

The act of one who rationalizes.
- 1954, Roscoe Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (page 140)
  But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions.

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