just
JUST, a. L. justus. The primary sense is probably straight or close, from the sense of setting, erecting, or extending.
1. Regular; orderly; due; suitable.
When all
The war shall stand ranged in its just array.
2. Exactly proportioned; proper.
Pleaseth your lordship
To meet his grace,just distance tween our armies?
3. Full; complete to the common standard.
He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.
4. Full; true; a sense allied to the preceding, or the same.
--So that once the skirmish was like to have come to a just battle.
5. In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice; as a just judge.
6. In an evangelical sense, righteous; religious; influenced by a regard to the laws of God; or living in exact conformity to the divine will.
There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Eccles.7.
7. Conformed to rules of justice; doing equal justice.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just him shall ye have. Lev.19.
8. Conformed to truth; exact; proper; accurate; as just thoughts; just expressions; just images or representations; a just description; a just inference.
9. True; founded in truth and fact; as a just charge or accusation.
10. Innocent; blameless; without guilt.
How should man be just with God? Job.9.
11. Equitable; due; merited; as a just recompense or reward.
--Whose damnation is just. Rom.3.
12. True to promises; faithful; as just to ones word or engagements.
13. Impartial; allowing what is due; giving fair representation of character, merit or demerit.
justness
JUSTNESS, n. Accuracy; exactness; as the justness of proportions.
1. Conformity to truth; as the justness of a description or representation.
2. Justice; reasonableness; equity; as the justness of a cause or of a demand. Justness is properly applied to things, and justice to persons; but the distinction is not always observed.