injustice

From Middle English injustice, from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- +‎ justice. Displaced native Old English unrihtwīsnes.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/

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injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)

1. Absence of justice; unjustice.
2. Violation of the rights of another person or people.

   Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

     I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue.

3. Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.

• Injustice and unjust use different prefixes, as French injustice was borrowed into English, while unjust was formed as un- + just. The spelling injust, from French injuste, is very rarely used, and unjustice, from un- + justice, is nonstandard.

• justicelessness
• unjustice (nonstandard)
• wrong
• wrength

• just
• justice
• unjust
• injust, injustly (rare)

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin injūstitia, from iniustus (“unjust”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ʒys.tis/

injustice f (plural injustices)

1. injustice

• justice
• injuste

• “injustice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

injustice

1. inflection of injustiçar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative