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justness|ˈdʒʌstnɪs|
[f. just a. + -ness.]
The quality of being just: = justice in its non-legal senses: cf. F. justesse beside justice.
†1. The quality of being just or upright; righteousness; uprightness. Obs.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxxv. (1869) 66 Thilke scau⁓berk is cleped humilitee..jn whiche thow shuldest thi swerd herberwe, and thi justnesse hide. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 40 Fayth seemeth here..to be taken..for faythfulnes and trustines, that is to wit, for iustnes, vpright dealing, and trueth. 1658Cleveland Rustic Rampant Wks. (1687) 391 Good Men if they miscarry, do not only lose themselves but their Integrity, their Iustness, their Honesty. 1726G. Roberts Four Years Voy. 346, I should not question his Iustness, were it a Cargo of twice the Value.
2. The quality or fact of being morally right or equitable, or of having valid or reasonable grounds; rightfulness; fairness; validity, soundness.
1559Knox Let. to Cecil in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. ix. 123 If..she grounded the justness of her title upon consuetude, laws, and ordinances of men. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 479 The Justice that is said to establish the Throne of a Prince, consists no less in the Justness of his Title, than the just Administration of his Government. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. i. Wks. 1813 I. 10 Neither Edward nor the Scots seemed to distrust the justness of their cause. 1809T. Paine in Naval Chron. XXI. 117 Men are led away by the greatness of an idea, and not by the justness of it. 1884Chr. Commw. 11 Dec. 119/2 We are not..concerned about the justness of what Lord Lytton says.
3. The quality or state of being right, proper, or correct; conformity to truth or to a standard; correctness; propriety; † exactness, accuracy (obs.).
1666–7Pepys Diary 16 Feb., Very good musique they made... Their justness in keeping time by practice much before any that we have. 1684R. Waller Nat. Exper. 10 The Justness of the most Acurate Clocks cannot discover it. 1757Pringle in Phil. Trans. L. 383 Some doubts he had then about the justness of Dr. Springsfeld's experiments with lime-water. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 102 The horned cattle have been brought to the largest size and greatest justness of shape. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma p. xxiv, After we have got all the facts of our special study, justness of perception to deal with the facts is still required. |