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noun

Injustice n.

Lack of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. "If this people (the Athenians) resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice."

An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. "Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished."

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Etymology of 'Injustice'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Injustice" Quotes from Famous Books

... to feel a great wave of anger surge up in her, responsive to his own. She cried, in outraged resentment at his injustice: "You know very well—" and stopped, horrified at the passion which rose clamoring to ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... deepest indignation. Indeed, it was only at some sort of suggestion like this that I ever saw my father really angry. Then, and only then, he would flare up and reply that this was the sort of excuse that people always made to cover cruelty, wickedness, and injustice. Grown-up people were much too ready to invent plausible grounds for the oppression of children. "Serve you right," was never heard to fall from his lips by ...

— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

... Equality of justice has its place in retribution, since equal rewards or punishments are due to equal merit or demerit. But this does not apply to things as at first instituted. For just as an architect, without injustice, places stones of the same kind in different parts of a building, not on account of any antecedent difference in the stones, but with a view to securing that perfection of the entire building, which could not be obtained except by the different ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... compel him to flee, and will give us the victory. We can, at all times, fearlessly stand up in defiance, in resistance to the enemy, and claim the protection of our heavenly King just as a citizen would claim the protection of the government against an outrage or injustice on the part of violent men. At the same time we are not to stand on the adversary's ground anywhere by any attitude or disobedience, or we give him a terrible power over us, which, while God will restrain ...

— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson

... to dine on the previous day, I treat myself to a perfect fit of indigestion in the morning by watching the carts arrive here laden with all sorts of good things. On such mornings as those I love my vegetables more than ever. Ah! the exasperating part, the rank injustice of it all, is that those rascally Philistines really eat ...

— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

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