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(1):

(a.) Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.

(2):

(a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.

(3):

(v. t.) To administer justice to.

(4):

(a.) Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice.

(5):

(a.) The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.

(6):

(a.) The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Justice'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​j/justice.html. 1828.
 
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