justice > define
noun
- The quality of being just or fair.
- synonyms: 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.
- 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, Justice Department, DoJ
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To administer justice to.
- (a.) The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.
- (a.) Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice.
- (a.) Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.
- (a.) The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.
- (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary