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JUSTICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("justice" is a kind of...):
assessment; judgement; judgment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event)
Domain member category:
prejudice (disadvantage by prejudice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "justice"):
administration; judicature (the act of meting out justice according to the law)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being just or fair
Synonyms:
justice; justness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("justice" is a kind of...):
righteousness (adhering to moral principles)
natural virtue ((scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "justice"):
equity; fairness (conformity with rules or standards)
right; rightfulness (anything in accord with principles of justice)
Antonym:
injustice (the practice of being unjust or unfair)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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; Justice Department
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Justice" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Justice"):
BJA; Bureau of Justice Assistance (the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse)
BJS; Bureau of Justice Statistics (the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers)
FBI; Federal Bureau of Investigation (a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice)
DEA; Drug Enforcement Administration; Drug Enforcement Agency (federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations)
BoP; Federal Bureau of Prisons (the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes)
National Institute of Justice; NIJ (the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice)
Marshals; United States Marshals Service; US Marshals Service (the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
legislation; statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("justice" is a kind of...):
adjudicator (a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes)
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "justice"):
alcalde (a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town)
chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)
Daniel (a wise and upright judge)
doge (formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa)
justiciar; justiciary (formerly a high judicial officer)
magistrate (a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses))
ordinary (a judge of a probate court)
praetor; pretor (an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic)
qadi (an Islamic judge)
recorder (a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs)
trial judge (a judge in a trial court)
trier (one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case)
Instance hyponyms:
Samson ((Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah)
Context examples:
His primacy was savage, and savagely he ruled, administering justice with a club, punishing transgression with the pain of a blow, and rewarding merit, not by kindness, but by withholding a blow.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Ah, answered he, let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Whether party, in religion or politics, were observed to be of any weight in the scale of justice?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But another will come, and yet another, until some day justice will be done; that is as certain as the rise of to-morrow’s sun.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would certainly have done more justice to simple and elegant prose.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I confide it to your honour and to your love of justice.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You do me justice, James,” said Lord Avon, clasping the broad, brown hand which the country squire had held out to him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But François, chuckling at the incident while unswerving in the administration of justice, brought his lash down upon Buck with all his might.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But I must do these men justice.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Not even I, Claude Latour Seigneur of Montchateau, master of the high justice, the middle and the low, could gain their favor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
