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injustice|ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs|
[a. F. injustice (14th c., Oresme), ad. L. injūstitia, f. injūstus injust: cf. justice.]
The opposite of justice; unjust action; wrong; want of equity, unfairness. With an and pl., An instance of this; an unjust act.
1390Gower Conf. III. 246 Speciall misgovernaunce Through covetise and injustice. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 78 Occasyon to condempne his prelate of iniustyce & iniquite. 1601in Archpr. Controv. (Camden) II. 177 The many iniustices of yor last edict. 1611Bible Ecclus. xl. 12 All briberie and iniustice shall be blotted out. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt II. xxix. 141 The Americans have been wronged. They have been driven to madness by injustice. 1839Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. vii. 102 The portrait prefixed to his ‘Speeches’ does him great injustice. 1879H. Spencer Data of Ethics vii. §45. 122 The class-privileges which make injustices easy.
Hence † inˈjusticer, Obs. nonce-wd., an agent or officer of injustice.
a1618Raleigh Prerog. Parl. (1628) 27 The Iustices of peace in England haue oppos'd the iniusticers of warre in England. |