Meaning

noun the quality of being just or fair

noun judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments

noun a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

originFrom Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. Doublet of Justitia. Partly displaced…

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