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injustice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- +? justice.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?d??s.t?s/
Noun
injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)
- Absence of justice; unjustice.
- Violation of the rights of another person or people.
- Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
Usage notes
- 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.
Synonyms
- justicelessness
- unjustice (nonstandard)
- wrong
- wrength
Related terms
- just
- justice
- unjust
- injust, injustly (rare)
Translations
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin ini?stitia, inj?stitia, from iniustus (“unjust”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.?ys.tis/
Noun
injustice f (plural injustices)
- injustice
Related terms
- justice
- injuste
Further reading
- “injustice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Verb
injustice
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of injustiçar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of injustiçar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of injustiçar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of injustiçar
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disservice
English
Etymology
From dis- +? service.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?(s)?s??v?s/
- (US) enPR: dis·s?r´v?s, IPA(key): /d?(s)?s?v?s/
Noun
disservice (countable and uncountable, plural disservices)
- Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
- 2014, Michele Kaschub, Janice Smith, Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education, Oxford University Press (?ISBN)
- Often schools of music focus solely on the canon of Western classical art music, but this is a disservice to music educators who will have to deal with students from many different backgrounds and preferences.
- One renders young persons a disservice by heaping unearned rewards on them.
- 2014, Michele Kaschub, Janice Smith, Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education, Oxford University Press (?ISBN)
Translations
Verb
disservice (third-person singular simple present disservices, present participle disservicing, simple past and past participle disserviced)
- To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.
Translations
Related terms
- disserve
References
- disservice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- disservice at OneLook Dictionary Search
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