injust

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adjective

Unjust, unfair.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveinjust (comparative more injust, superlative most injust)

comparative more injust · superlative most injust

  1. datednonstandardrareUnjust, unfair.
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    And this also is as really true as the praecendent Narration (which the very Tyrants and cruel Murderers cannot deny without the stigma of a lye) that the Spaniards never received any injury from the Indians, but that they rather reverenced them as Persons descended from Heaven, until that they were compelled to take up Arms, provoked thereunto by repeated Injuries, violent Torments, and injust Butcheries.

    1689, Bartolome de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    And to declair thame selvis to be the generatioun of Sathan, who, from the begynnyng, hath bein ennemy to the treuth, and he that desyrith the same to be hyd frome the knowledge of men, thei putt a ball of brass in his mouth, to the end that he should nott geve confessioun of his fayth to the people, neyther yit that thei should understand the defence which he had against thair injust accusatioun and condemnatioun.

    1895, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)

Origin

  1. Old Frenchinjuste
  2. Middle Englishinjuste
  3. Englishinjust

From Middle English injuste, from Old French injuste; equivalent to in- + just.

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