different between injustice vs pimpernel

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)

1. Absence of justice; unjustice.
2. Violation of the rights of another person or people.

3. 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)

1. 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

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of injustiçar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of injustiçar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of injustiçar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of injustiçar

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pimpernele et al., Middle French pimpinelle (“burnet saxifrage”) et al., from Medieval Latin pimpinella, pipinella, most likely from piper (“pepper”) because its fruit resembled peppercorns, although variants may suggest other derivations, bipinnella the bipennis (“two-winged”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?mp?n?l/

Noun

pimpernel (plural pimpernels)

1. (now rare) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage, Pimpinella saxifraga. [from 16th c.]
2. Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis. [from 15th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 221:

     Common Pimpernel has diverse weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset all along with two small and almost round leaves at every joint [...].

3. Sanguisorba spp. [from 16th c.]
   1. Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) [from 16th c.]
   2. Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor). [from 16th c.]
4. (Canada, US) A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
5. (figuratively) Someone resembling the fictional Scarlet Pimpernel; a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice. [from 20th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?), Hal Lehrman

     Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.

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