injustice

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But I can no longer rave on the subject; the injustice is a _fact_, and only other facts will replace it; I concern myself only with facts.

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  1. noun Violation of another's rights or of what is right; lack of justice.
  2. noun A specific unjust act; a wrong.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: injustice, injury, wrong, grievance
    These nouns denote acts or conditions that cause people to suffer hardship or loss undeservedly. An injustice is a violation of a person's rights; the term can also refer to unfair treatment of another or others: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
    An injury is an injustice for which legal redress is available: The court awarded the plaintiff compensation for the injury to his property.
    Wrong is now more emphatic than injustice and in a legal sense refers to what violates the rights of an individual or adversely affects the public welfare: "The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth” (Charles Kingsley).
    A grievance is regarded by those involved as a wrong that affords cause for complaint: The warden addressed the inmates' grievances.

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  • And where the central players in the commission of this injustice are our elected and appointed officials, the citizens of this country are presented with a major dilemma of vast consequence. —  TPMCafe
  • The text of a letter written by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court Judge, to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, dated April 17, 2009: I would like to bring to your attention a case of grave injustice which is a cause of much ... —  The Hindu - Front Page
  • She had been looking up files of old newspapers, and working herself up into a state of indignation with what she called the injustice and the hypocrisy of the prosecution. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts
  • I have already spoken of the systematic cruelty practised by the Spaniards from their first occupation of the country, and of the dreadful effects of the mita (as the parcelling out of the people among the conquerors as slaves was called, under the pretence of enabling them to learn trades and to become domestic servants, as also to make them work in the mines); but another injustice was the immediate cause of the outbreak. —  Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
  • Therein lay his safety, for the law takes no cognisance of injustice, unless the injustice is also a breach of the law, and Henry rarely, if ever, (p. 436) broke the law. —  Henry VIII.
 

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injustice:   injustices
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin iniūstitia, from iniūstus, unjust : in-, not; see in-1 + iūstus, just; see just1.

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  1. from French injustice = Provencal Spanish injusticia = Portuguese injustiça = Italian ingiustizia, from Latin injustitia, injustice, from injustus, not just: see injust.
 

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