Justing


[juhst] /dʒʌst/

noun, verb (used without object)
1.
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adjective (dʒʌst)
1.

2.
conforming to high moral standards; honest
3.
consistent with justice: a just action
4.
rightly applied or given; deserved: a just reward
5.
legally valid; lawful: a just inheritance
6.
well-founded; reasonable: just criticism
7.
correct, accurate, or true: a just account
adverb (dʒʌst; unstressed) (dʒəst)
8.
used with forms of have to indicate an action performed in the very recent past: I have just closed the door
9.
at this very instant: he’s just coming in to land
10.
no more than; merely; only: just an ordinary car
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exactly; precisely: that’s just what I mean
12.
by a small margin; barely: he just got there in time
13.
(intensifier): it’s just wonderful to see you
14.
(informal) indeed; with a vengeance: isn’t it just
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just about

16.
just a moment, just a second, just a minute, an expression requesting the hearer to wait or pause for a brief period of time
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just now

18.
just on, having reached exactly: it’s just on five o’clock
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just so

adj.

late 14c., “righteous in the eyes of God; upright, equitable, impartial; justifiable, reasonable,” from Old French juste “just, righteous; sincere” (12c.), from Latin iustus “upright, equitable,” from ius “right,” especially “legal right, law,” from Old Latin ious, perhaps literally “sacred formula,” a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from PIE root *yewes- “law” (cf. Avestan yaozda- “make ritually pure;” see jurist). The more mundane Latin law-word lex covered specific laws as opposed to the body of laws. The noun meaning “righteous person or persons” is from late 14c.
adv.

“merely, barely,” 1660s, from Middle English sense of “exactly, precisely, punctually” (c.1400), from just (adj.), and paralleling the adverbial use of French juste. Just-so story first attested 1902 in Kipling, from the expression just so “exactly that, in that very way” (1751).

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