Part 49

902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment — N. endearment, caress; blandishment, blandiment†; panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky; caressing. embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation†; amorous glances. courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading; caterwauling. flirting &c v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry. true lover's knot, plighted love; love tale, love token, love letter; billet-doux, valentine. honeymoon; Strephon and Chloe†. V. caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness. clasp, hug, cuddle; fold in one's arms, strain in one's arms; nestle, nuzzle; embrace, kiss, buss, smack, blow a kiss; salute &c (courtesy) 894; fold to the heart, press to the bosom. bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux [Fr.]. fall in love with, win the affections &c (love) 897; die for. propose; make an offer, have an offer; pop the question; plight one's troth, plight one's faith. Adj. caressing &c v.; sighing like furnace [Shakespeare]; love-sick, spoony. caressed &c v.. Phr. faint heart neer won fair lady; kisses honeyed by oblivion [G. Eliot].

903. Marriage — N. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii [Lat.], nuptial tie. married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation. match; betrothment &c (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar &c v.; nuptial benediction, epithalamium†; sealing. torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon. bridesmaid, bridesman†, best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist†, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate†; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife. feme [Fr.], feme coverte [Fr.]; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood†; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife. monogamy, bigamy, digamy†, deuterogamy†, trigamy†, polygamy; mormonism; levirate†; spiritual wifery†, spiritual wifeism†; polyandrism†; Turk, bluebeard†. unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de convenance [Fr.]. marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen [G.]. V. marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, get hitched [U.S.], lead to the hymeneal altar, take 'for better for worse', give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon. marry, join, handfast†; couple &c (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c (promise) 768; publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church. Adj. married &c v.; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable, nubile. engaged, betrothed, affianced. matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal. Phr. the gray mare the better horse; a world-without-end bargain [Love's Labor's Lost]; marriages are made in Heaven [Tennyson]; render me worthy of this noble wife [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari [Lat.] [Ovid].

904. Celibacy — N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood, bachelorship†; misogamy†, misogyny. virginity, pucelage†; maidenhood, maidenhead. unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist†, old bachelor; misogamist†, misogynist; monogamist; monk. unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole [Fr.], old maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun. V. live single, live alone. Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded†; wifeless, spouseless†; single.

905. Divorce — N. divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial separation, separate maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro [Lat.], separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat.]. trial separation, breakup; annulment. widowhood, viduity†, weeds. widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow. V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse†, put away; wear the horns.

2. DIFFUSIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

906. Benevolence — N. benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy &c 910; unselfishness &c 942. good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness &c adj.; loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy; goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love &c 897; friendship &c 888. toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy &c (pity) 914. charitableness &c adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good [Goldsmith]. acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment. good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant [Fr.]; altruist. V. be benevolent &c adj.; have one's heart in the right place, bear good will; wish well, wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor; take in good part; take an interest in, feel an interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with, empathize with, feel for; fraternize &c (be friendly) 888. enter into the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway. treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn; benefit &c (goodness) 648; render a service, be of use; aid &c 707. Adj. benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored. warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted; merciful &c 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful. good-natured, well-natured; spleenless†; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant &c (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned. fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal†; friendly &c 888. Adv. with a good intention, with the best intentions. Int. Godspeed!, much good may it do!, Phr. act a charity sometimes [Lamb]; a tender heart, a will inflexible [Longfellow]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat.], say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead; kind words are more than coronets [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay manana [Lat.]; the social smile, the sympathetic tear [Gray].

907. Malevolence — N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness†; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity &c 889; hate &c 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense†; maliciousness &c adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c 900. uncharitableness &c adj.; incompassionateness &c 914.1 [Obs.]; gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity†, acerbity churlishness &c (discourtesy) 895. hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity†, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity†, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection. ill turn, bad turn; affront &c (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [Iron.]; unkindest cut of all [Julius Caesar]. V. be malevolent &c adj.; bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot. hurt &c (physical pain) 378; annoy &c 830; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast. molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use. wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel; dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no mercy &c 914.1. Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil- disposed; black-browed†. malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling. harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious†; invidious; uncandid; churlish &c (discourteous) 895; surly, sullen &c 901.1. cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless &c (unmerciful) 914.1; relentless &c (revengeful) 919. cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine†, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty &c (murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded†. fiendish, fiendlike†; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran. Adv. malevolently &c adj.; with bad intent &c n.. Phr. cruel as death; hard unkindness' alter'd eye [Gray]; homo homini lupus [Lat.] [Plautus]; mala mens [Lat.], malus animus [Lat.] [Terence]; rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind [Hamlet]; sharp-tooth'd unkindness [Lear].

908. Malediction — N. malediction, malison†, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination†, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha†; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation. abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing &c v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility. threat &c 909; more bark than bite; invective &c (disapprobation) 932. V. curse, accurse†, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction. execrate, beshrew†, scold; anathematize &c (censure) 932; bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten &c 909. curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn. Adj. cursing, cursed &c v.. Int. woe to!, beshrew!†, ruat coelum! [Lat.], ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize!, damn!, damn it!, damn you!, damn you to hell!, go to hell!, go to blazes!, confound!, blast!, curse!, devil take!, hang!, out with!, a plague upon!, out upon!, aroynt!†, honi soit! [Fr.], parbleu! [Fr.], Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat.].

909. Threat — N. threat, menace; defiance &c 715; abuse, minacity†, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination &c (curse) 908 [Obs.]; gathering clouds &c (warning) 668. V. threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully. defy &c 715; intimidate &c 860; keep in terrorem [Lat.], hold up in terrorem [Lat.], hold out in terrorem [Lat.]; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers. Adj. threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious†; comminatory†, abusive; in terrorem [Lat.]; ominous &c (predicting) 511; defiant &c 715; under the ban. Int. vae victis! [Lat.], at your peril!, do your worst!,

910. Philanthropy — N. philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism universal benevolence; endaemonism†, deliciae humani generis [Lat.]; cosmopolitanism utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, social science, sociology common weal; socialism, communism, Fourierism†, phalansterianism†, Saint Simonianism†. patriotism, civism†, nationality, love of country, amor patriae [Lat.], public spirit. chivalry, knight errantry†; generosity &c 942. philanthropist, endaemonist†, utilitarian, Benthamite, socialist, communist, cosmopolite, citizen of the world, amicus humani generis [Lat.]; knight errant; patriot. Adj. philanthropic, humanitarian, utilitarian, cosmopolitan; public- spirited, patriotic; humane, large-hearted &c (benevolent) 906; chivalric; generous &c 942. Adv. pro bono publico [Lat.], pro aris et focis [Cicero]. Phr. humani nihil a me alienum puto [Lat.] [Terence]; omne solum forti patria [Lat.] [Ovid]; un bien fait n'est jamais perdu [Fr.].

911. Misanthropy — N. misanthropy, incivism; egotism &c (selfishness) 943; moroseness &c 901.1; cynicism. misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, Timon, Diogenes. woman hater, misogynist. Adj. misanthropic, antisocial, unpatriotic; egotistical &c (selfish) 943; morose &c 901.1.

912. Benefactor — N. benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae [Lat.]; salt of the earth &c (good man);; 948; auxiliary &c 711.

913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer — N. evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer &c 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast†. firebrand, incendiary, fire bug [U.S.], pyromaniac; anarchist, communist†, terrorist. savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian†, caitiff, desperado; Apache†, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly [U.S.], Red Skin, tough [U.S.]; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin†, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief &c 792. cockatrice, scorpion, hornet. snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda†. canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran†, alligator, caymon†, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane &c 663. cutthroat &c (killer) 461. cannibal; anthropophagus†, anthropophagist†; bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon†, gerfalcon†. wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell- hound, sleuth-hound; catamount [U.S.], cougar, jaguar, puma. hag, hellhag†, beldam, Jezebel. monster; fiend &c (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster. harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides. Hun, Attila†, scourge of the human race. Phr. faenum habet in cornu [Lat.].

3. SPECIAL SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

914. Pity — N. pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long- suffering. melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae [Lat.]. sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher. V. pity; have pity, show pity, take pity &c n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole &c 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup de grâce, put out of one's misery. raise pity, excite pity &c n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm. ask for mercy &c v.; supplicate &c (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate. Adj. pitying &c v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched. merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c (philanthropic) 910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened†; lenient &c 740; exorable†, forbearing; melting &c v.; weak. Int. for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss! [Lat.] [Vergil]. Phr. one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Lat.] [Vergil]; a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind; onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa [It] [Garrick].

914a. Pitilessness — N. pitilessness &c adj.; inclemency; severity &c 739; malevolence &c 907. V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c 914; give no quarter. Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate†, uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh &c 739; unrelenting &c 919.

915. Condolence — N. condolence; lamentation &c 839; sympathy, consolation. V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament with &c 839; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.

4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

916. Gratitude — N. gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation. acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful good will. thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum &c (worship) 990 [Lat.]; grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals; thank offering. requital. V. be grateful &c adj.; thank; give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks &c n.; acknowledge, requite. feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation; savoir gré [Fr.]; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, overflow with gratitude; thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars; fall on one's knees. Adj. grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation. Int. thanks!, many thanks!, gramercy!†, much obliged!, thank you!, thank you very much!, thanks a lot!, thanks a heap, thanks loads [Coll.]; thank Heaven!, Heaven be praised!, Gott sei Dank! [G.].

917. Ingratitude — N. ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness†. benefits forgot; thankless task, thankless office. V. be ungrateful &c adj.; forget benefits; look a gift horse in the mouth. Adj. ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits. forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked†, unrequited, unrewarded; ill- requited. Int. thank you for nothing!, thanks for nothing!, et tu Brute! [Julius Caesar]. Phr. ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend [Lear].

918. Forgiveness — N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve. conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation &c (pacification) 723; propitiation. excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation &c (acquittal) 970. longanimity†, placability; amantium irae [Lat.]; locus paenitentiae [Lat.]; forbearance. V. forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at &c (neglect) 460; bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront. let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit &c 970. beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon &c n.; conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel &c (pacify) 723; let the wound heal. Adj. forgiving, placable, conciliatory, forgiven &c v.; unresented†, unavenged, unrevenged†. Adv. cry you mercy. Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Lat.] [Horace]; more in sorrow than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner [Fr.]; the offender never pardons [Herbert].

919. Revenge — N. revenge, revengement†; vengeance; avengement†, avengeance†, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation &c 718; day of reckoning. rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c 907; ruthlessness &c 914.1. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides. V. revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger. have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle. keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast. Adj. revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c 914.1; ruthless, rigorous, avenging. unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless, remorseless. aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus [Lat.]; rankling; immitigable. Phr. manet ciratrix [Lat.], manet alid mente repostum [Lat.]; dies irae dies illa [Lat.]; in high vengeance there is noble scorn [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Lat.] [Seneca]; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; now infidel I have thee on the hip [Merchant of Venice].

920. Jealousy — N. jealousy, jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious suspicion, suspicion; green-eyed monster [Othello]; yellows; Juno. V. be jealous &c adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye. Adj. jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon†; jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious, hornmad.

921. Envy — N. envy; enviousness &c adj.; rivalry; jalousie de milier [Fr.]; illwill, spite. V. envy, covet, burst with envy. Adj. envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens [Lat.]. Phr. base envy withers at another's joy [Thomson]; caeca invidia est [Lat.] [Livy]; multa petentibus desunt multa [Lat.] [Horace]; summa petit livor [Lat.] [Ovid].

SECTION IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS

1. MORAL OBLIGATIONS

922. Right — N. right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness &c adj.; summum jus [Lat.]. justice, equity; equitableness &c adj.; propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis [Lat.]. Astraea†, Nemesis, Themis. scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique [Lat.]; clear stage, fair field and no favor, level playing field. morals &c (duty) 926; law &c 963; honor &c (probity) 939; virtue &c 944. V. be right &c adj.; stand to reason. see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense &c (reward) 973; bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem [Lat.]. deserve &c (be entitled to) 924. Adj. right, good; just, reasonable; fit &c 924; equal, equable, equatable†; evenhanded, fair. legitimate, justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be; lawful &c (permitted) 760, (legal) 963. deserved &c 924. Adv. rightly &c adj.; à bon droit [Fr.], au bon droit [Fr.], in justice, in equity, in reason. without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons; upon even terms. Int. all right!, fair's fair. Phr. Dieu et mon droit [Fr.]; in equal scale weighing delight and dole [Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Lat.] [Cicero]; justitiae soror incorrupta fides [Lat.]; justitia virtutem regina [Lat.]; thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just [Henry VI].

923. Wrong — N. wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be; malum in se [Lat.]; unreasonableness, grievance; shame. injustice; tort [Law]; unfairness &c adj.; iniquity, foul play.

## partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party

spirit, partisanship; bigotry. undueness &c 925; wrongdoing (vice) 945; unlawfulness &c 964. robbing Peter to pay Paul &c v.; the wolf and the lamb; vice &c 945. a custom more honored in the breach than the observance [Hamlet]. V. be wrong &c adj.; cry to heaven for vengeance. do wrong &c n.; be inequitable &c adj.; favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile; rob Peter to pay Paul. Adj. wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable†; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious [Law]. objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified &c 925; illegal &c 964; iniquitous; immoral &c 945. in the wrong, in the wrong box. Adv. wrongly &c adj.. Phr. it will not do.

924. Dueness — N. due, dueness; right, privilege, prerogative, prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand, birthright. immunity, license, liberty, franchise; vested interest, vested right. sanction, authority, warranty, charter; warrant &c (permission) 760; constitution &c (law) 963; tenure; bond &c (security) 771. claimant, appellant; plaintiff &c 938. V. be due &c adj.. to, be the due &c n.. of; have right to, have title to, have claim to; be entitled to; have a claim upon; belong to &c (property) 780. deserve, merit, be worthy of, richly deserve. demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate†, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case. give a right, confer a right; entitle; authorize &c 760; sanctify, legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot. give every one his due &c 922; pay one's dues; have one's due, have one's rights. use a right, assert, enforce, put in force, lay under contribution. Adj. having a right to &c v.; entitled to; claiming; deserving, meriting, worthy of. privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible†, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved. allowable &c (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal; legalized &c (law) 963. square, unexceptionable, right; equitable &c 922; due, en r gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles [Fr.]. Adv. duly, ex officio, de jure [Lat.]; by right, by divine right; jure divino [Lat.], Dei gratia [Lat.], in the name of. Phr. civis Romanus sum [Lat.] [Cicero]; à chaque saint sa chandelle [Fr.].

925. [Absence of right.] Undueness — N. undueness &c adj.; malum prohibitum [Lat.]; impropriety; illegality &c 964. falseness &c adj.; emptiness of title, invalidity of title; illegitimacy. loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture. usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share. usurper, pretender. V. be undue &c adj.; not be due &c 924. infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself; give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp, violate, do violence to. disfranchise, disentitle, disqualify; invalidate. relax &c (be lax) 738; misbehave &c (vice) 945; misbecome†. Adj. undue; unlawful &c (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit; unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed†, unsanctioned, unjustified; unentitled†, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified; unprivileged, unchartered. illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false; usurped. tortious [Law]. undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled. forfeited, disfranchised. improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming, misbecoming†; seemless†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious, would-be. Phr. filius nullius.