| 单词 | justices' justice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjustices' justice justices' justice n. chiefly depreciative justice as administered by magistrates in inferior courts, esp. when considered disproportionately severe. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > [noun] > disproportionately severe justices' justice1816 Jersey justice1903 1816 Alfred (Exeter) 21 May in R. Cullum Addr., Speeches, Squibs, Songs Election for Exeter (1818) 185 We now see that parliamentary justice, and justice's justice, do not agree. 1838 Suffolk Lit. Chron. Apr. 107/1 Heaven deliver the poor from ‘Justices' Justice’. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 494 The ‘justice's justice’ of the Vibiuses and Floruses. 1908 C. Clarke Sixty Years in Upper Canada xi. 92 A time when rule by magistrates was the fashion, and ‘justice's justice’ was the backwoodsman's only resource. 1983 P. Jenkins Making of Ruling Class ii. iv. 90 ‘Justices' justice’ in Wales was proverbially unfair. < as lemmas |
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