Word Meaning

justice definition and meaning

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. 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. 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. Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.
a. A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.
v. t. To administer justice to.

Crossword clues for justice

- Fairness and reasonableness
- Judicial proceedings
- Lay magistrate, ... of the Peace
- Senior judge on the rocks?
- The J in JP
- Umpire