Crossword clues for justness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Justness \Just"ness\, n. The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.
In value the satisfaction I had in seeing it
represented with all the justness and gracefulness of
action.
--Dryden.
Note: Justness is properly applied to things, and justice to persons; but the distinction is not always observed.
Syn: Accuracy; exactness; correctness; propriety; fitness; reasonableness; equity; uprightness; justice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from just (adj.) + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being just; fairness
WordNet
Usage examples of "justness".
You have heard Katti describe Valmai as a nymphomaniac and will be able to draw your own conclusions about the justness of this criticism.
Now the baronet had so far compromised between the recurrence of his softer feelings and the suggestions of his new familiar, that he had determined to act toward Richard with justness.
He no despot, because He exercises only His sovereign right, and His own essential wisdom, goodness, justness, rectitude, and immutability, are the highest of all conceivable guaranties that His exercise of His power will always be right, wise, just, and good.
At any rate, our companions acknowledged the justness of the name with ringing acclamations when we told them of it.
For it was amid the same obscure ravines, pine-tufted precipices and falling waters of the Alps, that he afterward placed the outcast Manfred--an additional corroboration of the justness of the remarks which I ventured to offer, in adverting to his ruminations in contemplating, while yet a boy, the Malvern hills, as if they were the scenes of his impassioned childhood.