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justice-like en · ADJ

Etymology

From justice + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a justice or justice.
   • In fact, Charley Holliday, with a smile and a happy chief justice-like look, seemed very anxious to place the ballot in the box. 1895 November 9, “They’re O. K. The Suffrage Women Can’t Vote, But They Can. Manage Entertainments. The Entertainment Last Night Was a Great Success. Amusing and Instructive. A Large and Well Pleased Audience the Reward for the Efforts.”, in The Topeka Daily Press, volume XI, number 164, Topeka, Kan., page 1:
   • “Plagarism”^([sic]) is ignored entire in some cases, and in this we cannot expect anything more justice-like. 1891 June 12, The Sayre Times, volume I, number 14, Sayre, Pa.:
   • […]unless you give us a liberty-loving, justice-like looking platform, the ides of October next will find Sewardiism standing with both feet on the political grave of every Sam in the land. 1855 June 13, “Speech of Thomas H. Ford”, in The Summit Beacon, volume 16, number 52 (whole 91), Akron, Ohio, published 4 July 1855:
   • […]: it is a wonderfull thing to ſee the ſemblable coherence of his mens ſpirits, and his, they, by obſeruing him, do beare themſelues like fooliſh Iuſtices: hee, by conuerſing with them, is turned into a Iuſtice-like ſeruingman, their ſpirits are ſo married in coniunction, with the participation of ſociety, that they flocke together in conſent, like ſo many wild-geeſe. c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
   • Justice Shallow was on very free and intimate terms with his common serving-men. So it was that they swapped about: gave and took manners, thoughts, habits, and expressions. He, by observing them, became a very servant like justice: And they, by observing him, became very justice-like serving-men. 1900 July 8, “Moral and Intellectual Contagion. (Obsercations of a Philosophical Friend.)”, in The Richmond Dispatch, number 15,368, Richmond, Va., page 4:
   • […]I beseech and adjure you to hand me over the bosom and left leg of your capon, together with one French roll, and let me, justice-like, line my paunch therewith; 1877 February 22, F. Bradnack, “A Ghost Story”, in Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, volume XLVI, number 15,211, Buffalo, N.Y., chapter VI (A Christmas Guest):
   • Gurven and others (Enloe 2003) conclude from analyses of many studies that food sharing in hunter groups is explained well by assuming the operation of a justice-like motive. 2014, Riël Vermunt, “Origins of the Justice Motive: Between Egoism and Altruism”, in The Good, the Bad, and the Just: How Modern Men Shape Their World, Ashgate, →ISBN, part I (The Justice Motive), page 61:
   • Thus, the county hopes legislators will extend a bill, due to expire this year, allowing counties to add an additional 1-cent sales tax to pay for court-related or criminal justice-like facilities. 1985 March 10, Steve Nichol, “Revenue increase sought”, in News/Sun-Sentinel, page 14B:
   • He had grown quite fat, and had a very justice-like rotundity of body. 1834 November, “My Classmates”, in The Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts, volume I, number 3, Richmond: T. W. White:
   • They’ll know that upstairs dozens of advertising people will be confined to a room watching TV commercials for almost an hour. Justice will finally have its day.[…]It’s a plot against the ad people worthy of a Shakespeare or Solomon for its justice-like quality. 1960 September 11, Milton Beckerman, “Business Beat”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 77, number 49, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 8-B:
   • The court house had thrown off her frowning, justice-like look, and reared her dome in quite a gay and festive manner, seemingly proud of her green draperies and patriotic ensigns. 1886 October 13, “The Soldiers’ Reunion”, in The Perry County Democrat, volume 50, number 18, New Bloomfield, Pa.:
   • “This way, sir, if you please,” said the clerk, and the next minute Jared was standing like a prisoner at the bar before his justice-like brother in a private room—standing, for Richard did not offer him a chair. 1877, George Manville Fenn, “At Austin Friars”, in A Little World, volume II, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 208:
   • The judge went into the details of Supreme court methods, showing the amount of work accomplished by that esteemed body, and also bringing up statistics to show that justice was meted out in a more justice-like way in the North Star state than in any other state in the nation. 1904 April 12, “Talks of Court. Judge Collins Speaks on Subject with Which He Is Familiar. Tells Club of Men Something of the Workings of Supreme Court—Makes Comparisons.”, in The Minneapolis Tribune, volume XXXVII, number 309, Minneapolis, Minn., page 6:

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