Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. idiomatic To really allow to be apprehended in its full scope.
WordNet 3.0
- v. bring out fully or to advantage
- v. show due and full appreciation
Examples
“I have considered it convenient to unite the two parts under a common designation which will do justice to the discovery rights of Holland and England, and I have with that object in view had recourse to the name Austral-land or Australia.”
“The only difficulty here is that Lifu is so large and populous; and just now (what with French priests on it, and the most misty vague kind of teaching from Independents the only thing to oppose to the complete machinery of the Romish system) demands so much time, that it is difficult to do justice to one's lads from the distant lands that are living with one here.”
“An attempt to do justice by description to the rich and varied vegetation of Dunk Island in these unlearned pages would bespeak an idle, almost profane vanity.”
“I feel sure that Y. H.'s noble feelings will do justice to the equity of my proposal, and my wish to enter into every detail of this affair, so far as circumstances permit, and also my readiness to postpone my claims to suit your convenience.”
“She devised to make her case known to the King; who forthwith hastened to do justice on Promos, ordering that, to repair the lady's honour, he should marry her, and then, for his crime against the State, lose his head.”
“Rousseau's opera, “Le Devin du Village,” was performed with considerable success, in spite of the repugnance of the orchestral performers, of whom Rousseau always spoke in terms of unmeasured contempt, to do justice to the music.”
“But such a phrase fails to do justice to the glory of human nature.”
“You do not do justice to your reputation as a cutpurse.”
“There is no heart-nearness in their work, little of passionate human desire to do justice to phases of life hitherto neglected.”
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
“Miss Liston agreed with me in my conception of Pamela, but declared that I did not do justice to the artistic possibilities latent in Chillington; he had a curious attraction which it would tax her skill (so she gravely informed me) to the utmost to reproduce.”
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
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