justice
the quality of being just or fair
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,032 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 17,818 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the quality of being just or fair also: justness
- judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments
- a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice also: judge, jurist
- the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870 also: Department of Justice, Justice Department, DoJ
justice in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But it does not do him justice.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement — No. 474 · Various · Chapter 1
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It's a tragedy--' 'Perhaps it doesn't do him justice.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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They would all talk at once until it was quite hard for her to do them all justice.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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M. Desormeaux, the head clerk at the Department of Justice, was an old legitimist, much imbued with reactionary ideas.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Whatever legal maze he wandered through, He kept the Sermon on the Mount in view, And justice always into mercy grew.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1