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Justice   /dʒˈəstəs/  /dʒˈəstɪs/   Listen
Justice

noun
1.
The quality of being just or fair.  Synonym: justness.
2.
Judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments.
3.
A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice.  Synonyms: judge, jurist.
4.
The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870.  Synonyms: Department of Justice, DoJ, Justice Department.



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"Justice" Quotes from Famous Books



... possible. Do not think that you are betraying your mistress's secrets. Your mistress lies dead, and it is necessary that we should know all—if we are to avenge her. Nothing can bring her back to life, but we do hope, if there has been foul play, to bring the murderer to justice." ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
... not so confoundedly heartless," I returned, pounding the table with my fist, indignant that Parton should allow his prejudices to run away with his sense of justice. "I'm going to London to do as ...
— Ghosts I have Met and Some Others • John Kendrick Bangs
... he said, "if justice were done, they would make me a general for putting you into the army. I have half a mind to write to Lord Wellington, and put in a claim for promotion ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty
... have no doubt that Sir Thomas and Lady Caroline hit (as justice is done in this world) upon the chief blackguards. But the two boys, asking one another why So-and-so had been marked down while This-other had been spared, and observing that the So-and-so's included an overbalancing number of their own cronies, found ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... Sydyk, "Justice," or, the "Just One,"[1166] whose name corresponds to the Hebrew Zadok or Zedek, appears in the Phoenician mythology especially as the father of Esmun and the Cabeiri. Otherwise he is only known as the son of Magus (!) ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson


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