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unˈjust, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b; cf. Du. onjuist.]
1. a. Of persons: Not acting justly or fairly; not observing the principles of justice or fair dealing. Also const. to.
1382Wyclif Heb. vi. 10 Sothli God is not vniust, that he forȝete ȝoure workis. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) D iij b, Shall they be thought not vniust, who..misvse and waste the same vngodlye? 1568Grafton Chron. II. 400 An vniust and unprofitable Prince. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 302 The Duke's vniust, Thus to retort your manifest Appeale. 1664in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 208 You would bee very unjust to your sonne. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 16 [Men] are as often unjust to themselves as to others. 1781Cowper Expost. 56 He saw his people..avaricious, arrogant, unjust. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 74 In the beginning of his reign [he was] an unjust monarch. 1876J. Parker Paracl. ii. xix. 354 To compare the universal with the limited is to be unjust to both.
absol.1382Wyclif 1 Pet. iii. 18 Crist oonys dyede for oure synnes, he iust for vniuste. 1593Shakes. Lucrece 285 Foul hope and..fond mistrust; Both which, as servitors to the unjust, So cross him [etc.]. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 455 Th' unjust the just hath slain, For envie. 1781Cowper Expost. 268 Cry to the proud, the cruel, and unjust. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Plato, False opinion respecting the just and unjust.
b. Of actions, etc.: Not in accordance with justice or fairness. Phr. unjust enrichment: see quots.
c1400Destr. Troy 12965 This Forenses..prayet, Þat he might ryde..To Ioyne with Engest for his vniust werkes. 1549Compl. Scot. 2 [They] intendit ane oniust veyr..contrar our realme. a1586Sidney Astr. & Stella v. x, I lay then to thy charge vniustest tyrannie. 1611Bible Prov. xxviii. 8 By vsurie and vniust gaine. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. i. 93 Are we condemned by fate's unjust decree, No more..our homes to see? 1766Kames Princ. Equity (1767) 6 An action that we ought not to do is termed unjust; and the omission of what we ought to do is also termed unjust. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 156 Every case of annexation has been most manifestly unjust. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 399 It would be unjust not to refer..to the excellent results obtained by Pawlik and Byrne. 1942Law Rep. 4 July 135 It is clear that any civilised system of law is bound to provide remedies for cases of what has been called unjust enrichment or unjust benefit, that is, to prevent a man from retaining the money of..another which it is against conscience that he should keep. 1962A. Turner Law of Trade Secrets iv. iv. 346 The term ‘unjust enrichment’ refers to the use to which a disclosure is put. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 24 July 12/3 The defendants..have counterclaimed for $7,500, in damages for unjust enrichment.
absol.1659Rushworth Hist. Coll. I. Ep. Ded., The Law..puts a Difference betwixt Good and Evil, betwixt Just and Unjust. 1733Pope Ess. Man iii. 269 So drives Self⁓love, thro' just and thro' unjust, To one Man's pow'r.
2. Not upright or free from wrong-doing; faithless, dishonest. Also const. of or to. Now rare.
c1500Communycacyon (W. de W.) B ij, But lorde though I haue ben uniuste..I hope to rube awaye the ruste With repentaunce and grace of the. 1526Tindale Luke xvi. 8 The lorde commended the uniust stewarde because he had done wysly. a1593Marlowe Massacre Paris ii. v. 686 Thou trothles and vniust, what lines are these? 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 958 Their king accounted unjust of his word; who [etc.]. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xv. 71 When a Covenant is made, then to break it is Unjust. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxxi, Else nothing could have ever made me unjust to my promise. 1857Trollope Barchester T. xxxix, Mr. Plomacy was not quite happy in his mind, for he thought of the unjust steward.
†3. Improper; incorrect. Obs.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Q vj b, They..leaue the iuste trauayle, and take vniuste idelnesse. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 98 Would they not thinke you, straight proclaime against vs the vniust name of Christians. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 143 Beda giveth an uniust interpretation of their name. 1713Steele Guard. No. 17 ⁋1 The unjust taste they have who affect that way of pleasure.
†4. Irregular; inexact; inaccurate. Obs.
1602J. Davies (Heref.) Mirum in Modum Wks. (Grosart) I. 22/2 The Sea through vaines and Arteries of the Earth, Creeps through her Corpes,..And then returnes with windings most vniust. 1612W. Colson Gen. Tresury 246 Because of the vniust fractions in the said table..the said proofe will be found somewhat vniust, but tollerable. |