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  • adjective superlative form of just: most just.

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Examples

  • Allah ordereth justice and well-doing and bestowal of gifts upon kith and kin '; [FN#67] and the justest is the word of the

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • This is “the justest and most plausible objection against a considerable part of metaphysics, that they are not properly a science.”

    David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009

  • Dis is NAWT gud foar any kitteh, but Catherine iz ownli justest bak from tel v.e.t. adn it wud be definitetetely bad iffen she wur to stay heer tomorrow.

    Mom! My foots is all wet. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Everyone believed that it was "˜the justest war 'because it was being waged" ˜against the Barbarians '.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

  • They are four in number, and are chosen as being the best of the elders of Persia, one the wisest, another the justest, a third the most temperate, a fourth the bravest.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • They are four in number, and are chosen as being the best of the elders of Persia, one the wisest, another the justest, a third the most temperate, a fourth the bravest.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Then saw he in his sleep one who said to him, “Rejoice, for thy son shall fill the lands with justest sway; and he shall rule them and him shall the lieges obey.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It must, however, be remarked that in the ninth book the Chinese are spoken of under the name of Seres as the justest and wisest of mankind.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The son of Ariston (the best) is of opinion that the best and justest of men is also the happiest, and that this is he who is the most royal master of himself; and that the unjust man is he who is the greatest tyrant of himself and of his State.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Ariston (the best) has decided that the best and justest is also the happiest, and that this is he who is the most royal man and king over himself; and that the worst and most unjust man is also the most miserable, and that this is he who being the greatest tyrant of himself is also the greatest tyrant of his State?

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

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