English Synonyms and Antonyms

impartiality, but it has a philosophical and legal precision that those words have not. In legal proceedings
cases arise for which the law has not adequately provided, or in which general provisions, just in the main,
would work individual hardship. The system of equity, devised to supply the insufficiencies of law, deals with
cases "to which the law by reason of its universality can not apply." "Equity, then, ... is the soul and spirit of
all law; positive law is construed and rational law is made by it." BLACKSTONE bk. iii, ch. 27, p. 429. In
personal and social relations justice is the rendering to every one what is due or merited, whether in act, word,
or thought; in matters of reasoning, or literary work of any kind, justice is close, faithful, unprejudiced, and
unbiased adherence to essential truth or fact; we speak of the justice of a statement, or of doing justice to a
subject. Integrity, rectitude, right, righteousness and virtue denote conformity of personal conduct to the
moral law, and thus necessarily include justice, which is giving others that which is their due. Lawfulness is an
ambiguous word, meaning in its narrower sense mere legality, which may be very far from justice, but in its
higher sense signifying accordance with the supreme law of right, and thus including perfect justice. Justness
refers rather to logical relations than to practical matters; as, we speak of the justness of a statement or of a
criticism. See JUDGE, n.
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Antonyms:
dishonesty, inequity, partiality, unlawfulness, untruth, favoritism, injustice, unfairness, unreasonableness,
wrong.
Prepositions:
The justice of the king; to or for the oppressed.
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KEEP.
Synonyms:
carry, defend, hold, preserve, retain, carry on, detain, maintain, protect, support, celebrate, fulfil, obey, refrain,
sustain, conduct, guard, observe, restrain, withhold.
Keep, signifying generally to have and retain in possession, is the terse, strong Saxon term for many acts
which are more exactly discriminated by other words. We keep, observe, or celebrate a festival; we keep or
hold a prisoner in custody; we keep or preserve silence, keep the peace, preserve order--preserve being the
more formal word; we keep or maintain a horse, a servant, etc.; a man supports his family; we keep or obey a
commandment; keep or fulfil a promise. In the expressions to keep a secret, keep one's own counsel, keep
faith, or keep the faith, such words as preserve or maintain could not be substituted without loss. A person
keeps a shop or store, conducts or carries on a business; he keeps or carries a certain line of goods; we may
keep or restrain one from folly, crime, or violence; we keep from or refrain from evil, ourselves. Keep in the
sense of guard or defend implies that the defense is effectual. Compare CELEBRATE; RESTRAIN.
Prepositions:
Keep in hand, in mind, in or within the house; from evil; out of mischief; keep to the subject; keep for a
person, an occasion, etc.
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KILL.
Synonyms:
assassinate, despatch, massacre, put to death, slay. butcher, execute, murder, slaughter,
To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why.