Lexicographical Neighbors of Overjust
Literary usage of Overjust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by Baron John Campbell Campbell, James Cockcroft (1894)
"In his Diary he had written— "The wise man tells us, 'a man may be overjust.'
As equity may mitigate the security of justice in particular cases, ..."
2. The Genesis of the New England Churches by Leonard Bacon (1874)
"Hall made his answer in an elaborate work, entitled, "'A Common Apologie of the
Church of England against the Unjust Challenges of the overjust Sect ..."
3. The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Boaz Cohen (1913)
"Then a voice proclaimed from heaven, " Be not overjust." Later on, when Saul
commissioned Doeg to cut down the priests at Nob, the same voice was heard to ..."
4. Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical by Henry Hughes (1854)
"2. Philosophic. 3. Esthetic. 4. Ethical. . 5. Religious. 1. Essential coi tions
are 2. Accidental tions. 1. overjust, by . 2. ..."
5. Indika: The Country and the People of India and Ceylon by John Fletcher Hurst (1891)
"... nations in his fellow-feeling T * We can hardly expect a Frenchman, with his
memories of the great failure of France to acquire India, to be overjust to ..."
6. Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1834)
"... but it was in a place he did not like, and I know nothing of getting any thing
here, and if they would give me leave, I would come overjust now. ..."
7. The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins by John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836)
"... with humble and filial submission,) Him, who, imploring mercy, sues for life,
Than who, self-rigorous, chooses death as due; Which argues overjust, ..."
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