injustice
See also: Injustice
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English injustice, from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- + justice. Displaced native Old English unrihtwīsnes.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)
- Absence of justice; unjustice.
- Violation of the rights of another person or people.
- Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.
- 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:
- I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue.
- 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker[2]:
- The movie delivers a critical and analytical 'unfolding of the circumstances of Reality [Winner]’s life, starting with her childhood in Texas, in order to reveal her sense of deceptions and injustices that pass largely unchallenged in everyday American life.
- Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
- 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[3]:
- The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
Usage notes
[edit]- Injustice and unjust use different prefixes, as French injustice was borrowed into English, while unjust was formed as un- + just. The spelling injust, from French injuste, is very rarely used, and unjustice, from un- + justice, is nonstandard.
Synonyms
[edit]- justicelessness
- unjustice (nonstandard)
- wrong
- wrength
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]absence of justice
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violation of the rights of another
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin injūstitia, from iniustus (“unjust”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]injustice f (plural injustices)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “injustice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]injustice
- inflection of injustiçar:
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