Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

injustice vs unjustice

English answer:

injustice

Added to glossary by Kpy
Jun 21, 2004 11:45
20 yrs ago
English term

injustice vs unjustice

English Other Poetry & Literature under the veil of propriety
All that is violent does not require arms.
All that is peaceful is not just.
Injustice is the mother of violence.
One does not purchase arms with sweat, expulsion, and self-sacrifice.

A quick Google search yields over a million and a half hits for injustice, but only somewhat over 5,000 for unjustice. Is Google right?

Discussion

SirReaL Jun 21, 2004:
unjustice is not a word
it could even be a spelling error (u and i are next to each other)

Responses

+12
2 mins
Selected

injustice

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Note added at 9 mins (2004-06-21 11:54:14 GMT)
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You can be described as unjust (adjective), and the related noun is unjustness - but that is very rarely seen in practice.
Peer comment(s):

agree SirReaL : google is right
1 min
Thanks, SiReal!
agree Steffen Walter : Right, "unjustice" does not exist (wrong or at least highly unconventional word formation).
2 mins
Thanks Steffen!
agree Saleh Chowdhury, Ph.D.
3 mins
Thanks Saleh!
agree Stefanie Sendelbach
5 mins
Thanks, sundari!
agree Hacene
6 mins
Thanks, Hacene!
neutral Julia Gal : this was my gut reaction, but it's actually in the dictionary . Yes! You're right about the "obs" - I missed that...
6 mins
Yes Julia. But the [obs] means obsolete - and that was in the 1913 edition of Webster!
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
33 mins
Thanks, Vicky!
agree sassa
47 mins
Thanks, Sassa!
agree jccantrell
2 hrs
agree David Moore (X)
3 hrs
agree Milena Sahakian
7 hrs
agree Nanny Wintjens
7 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
9 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Graded automatically based on peer agreement."
+6
6 mins

the use of 'unjustice' is an 'injustice

A quick Google search yields over a million and a half hits for injustice

'unjustice' is an incorrect extension of 'unjust'
Peer comment(s):

agree Stefanie Sendelbach
0 min
thank you
agree SirReaL : good thinking! it must be - otherwise a misspelling
1 min
thank you
agree Rowan Morrell : Fully agree.
11 mins
thank you
agree Nancy Arrowsmith
1 hr
thank you
agree Nanny Wintjens
7 hrs
thank you
agree nlingua : witty
1 day 6 hrs
thank you
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+2
7 mins

both are valid

I would probably never use the word 'unjustice' - it just doesn't sound as natural to me as 'injustice' - both both are actually in the dictionary:

"Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Unjustice \Un*jus"tice\, n.
Want of justice; injustice. [Obs.] --Hales."

"Injustice \In*jus"tice\, n. [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See
In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust.]
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of
another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness;
imposition.

If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in
their extravagance, much more did they resemble and
even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke.

2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.

Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices
without being discovered, or at least without being
punished. --Swift."
http://dict.die.net
Peer comment(s):

neutral Hacene : unjust yes, but not unjustice. Not in the OED and [OBS] mean obsolete
2 mins
Why is it in the Chambers dictionary, then?
agree mrrobkoc
9 mins
neutral n/a (X) : Unjustice is listed as an obsolete term for injustice both in your ref above and in the OED. Ooops, I've just realised that this has been pointed out already. Sorry, didn't intend to labour the point!
12 mins
neutral Peter Linton (X) : The key point here is 'obsolete' in OED etc. And the word is not in Chambers 21st Century dictionary.
50 mins
neutral lindaellen (X) : also not in Random House Webster's College Dict.
1 hr
agree Alexander Onishko
2 hrs
neutral David Moore (X) : Not in Chambers 20th. Century either....nor the Shorter OED
3 hrs
neutral humbird : "Unjustice" is valid only in dictionary.
4 hrs
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