acquittal vs justification

acquittal

noun
  • The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance. 

  • A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. 

  • Avoidance of danger; deliverance. 

  • Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. 

justification

noun
  • The forgiveness of sin. 

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

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

How often have the words acquittal and justification occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )