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- legalism
- strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- due process
collapse - (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards related words >
- preciosity
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- the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- ceremonialism,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- legalism,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantism,
- pedantry,
- preciousness,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- purism,
- ritualism,
- scrupulousness,
- unnaturalness
- pedantry
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- an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning related words >
- bibliolatry,
- bibliomania,
- bluestockingism,
- book learning,
- book madness,
- bookiness,
- bookishness,
- booklore,
- ceremonialism,
- classical scholarship,
- classicism,
- culture,
- donnishness,
- elegance,
- eruditeness,
- erudition,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- humanism,
- humanistic scholarship,
- intellectualism,
- intellectuality,
- learnedness,
- legalism,
- letters,
- literacy,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantism,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- purism,
- reading,
- ritualism,
- scholarship,
- scrupulousness
- lawfulness
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- the quality of conforming to law related words >
- actionability,
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- allowableness,
- applicability,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- defensibility,
- drumhead justice,
- due process,
- dueness,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- evenhandedness,
- give-and-take,
- jurisdiction,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- licitness,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- nemesis,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- retributive justice,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- sanctionableness,
- scales of justice,
- scope,
- summary justice,
- validity,
- warrantability,
- warrantableness,
- warrantedness,
- what is right
- legitimacy
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- lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law related words >
- absolute power,
- absolute realism,
- absolutism,
- actionability,
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- allowableness,
- applicability,
- artlessness,
- authenticity,
- authority,
- bona fideness,
- competence,
- competency,
- constituted authority,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- defensibility,
- delegated authority,
- divine right,
- due process,
- excusability,
- explainability,
- explicability,
- faculty,
- forgivableness,
- genuineness,
- honesty,
- inartificiality,
- indirect authority,
- inherent authority,
- jurisdiction,
- jus divinum,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- lawful authority,
- lawfulness,
- legal authority,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimateness,
- licitness,
- lifelikeness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- naturalism,
- naturalness,
- pardonableness,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- photographic realism,
- power,
- prerogative,
- realism,
- realness,
- reasonability,
- reasonableness,
- regality,
- remissibility,
- right,
- rightful authority,
- rightfulness,
- royal prerogative,
- sanctionableness,
- scope,
- sincerity,
- the say,
- the say-so,
- true-to-lifeness,
- truth to nature,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectedness,
- unfictitiousness,
- unspeciousness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- validity,
- veniality,
- verisimilitude,
- vested authority,
- vicarious authority,
- vindicability,
- warrantableness
- validity
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- the quality of having legal force or effectiveness related words >
- actionability,
- admissibility,
- admissibleness,
- advantageousness,
- agreeableness,
- allowableness,
- amperage,
- applicability,
- armipotence,
- auspiciousness,
- authenticity,
- authoritativeness,
- authority,
- beef,
- beneficialness,
- benevolence,
- benignity,
- black power,
- brute force,
- calculability,
- charge,
- charisma,
- class,
- clout,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- compulsion,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- dependability,
- desert,
- dint,
- drive,
- due process,
- duress,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- efficacy,
- energy,
- excellence,
- expedience,
- fairness,
- faithworthiness,
- favorableness,
- fineness,
- firmness,
- first-rateness,
- flower power,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- goodliness,
- goodness,
- grace,
- gravity,
- healthiness,
- helpfulness,
- influence,
- invincibility,
- jurisdiction,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- justifiableness,
- justness,
- kindness,
- lawfulness,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- licitness,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- merit,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- niceness,
- permissibility,
- permissibleness,
- pizzazz,
- pleasantness,
- poop,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- predictability,
- prepotency,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- profitableness,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- quality,
- reliability,
- rewardingness,
- rightfulness,
- sanctionableness,
- scope,
- secureness,
- security,
- sinew,
- skillfulness,
- solidity,
- soundness,
- stability,
- staunchness,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- steam,
- strength,
- strong arm,
- substantiality,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- trustworthiness,
- unerringness,
- usefulness,
- value,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- warrantableness,
- wattage,
- weight,
- wholeness,
- worth
- justice
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- the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is justice denied"
- the quality of being just or fair related words >
- Astraea,
- Dike,
- JP,
- Jupiter Fidius,
- Justice,
- Justitia,
- Minos,
- Nemesis,
- Rhadamanthus,
- Themis,
- actionability,
- applicability,
- arbiter,
- arbitrator,
- assured probity,
- balance,
- beak,
- bencher,
- blamelessness,
- blindfolded Justice,
- cardinal virtues,
- character,
- charity,
- cleanness,
- coequality,
- coextension,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- correspondence,
- court,
- critic,
- decency,
- detention,
- due process,
- dueness,
- entitledness,
- entitlement,
- equality,
- equation,
- equilibrium,
- equipoise,
- equipollence,
- equiponderance,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- equivalence,
- equivalency,
- erectness,
- estimableness,
- evenness,
- expectation,
- fair play,
- fair-mindedness,
- fairness,
- faith,
- fortitude,
- good character,
- goodness,
- high ideals,
- high principles,
- high-mindedness,
- his honor,
- his lordship,
- his worship,
- honesty,
- honor,
- honorableness,
- hope,
- identity,
- immaculacy,
- impartiality,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- indicator,
- integrity,
- irreproachability,
- irreproachableness,
- judge,
- judger,
- judgment,
- judicatory,
- judicature,
- judicial process,
- judiciary,
- judiciousness,
- jurisdiction,
- justiciability,
- justifiable expectation,
- justness,
- law,
- lawfulness,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- levelness,
- licitness,
- likeness,
- love,
- magistrate,
- meritedness,
- moderator,
- moral excellence,
- moral strength,
- morality,
- natural virtues,
- neutrality,
- nobility,
- objectiveness,
- objectivity,
- par,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- poise,
- principles,
- prison,
- probity,
- proportion,
- prudence,
- punishment,
- pureness,
- purity,
- rectitude,
- referee,
- reputability,
- respectability,
- right,
- righteousness,
- rightfulness,
- scope,
- stainlessness,
- supernatural virtues,
- symmetry,
- temperance,
- the courts,
- the law,
- theological virtues,
- umpire,
- unimpeachability,
- unimpeachableness,
- unspottedness,
- uprightness,
- upstandingness,
- validity,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- worthiness
- jurisdiction
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- in law; the territory within which power can be exercised related words >
- accountability,
- acme,
- actionability,
- administration,
- agency,
- agentship,
- ambit,
- applicability,
- area,
- arena,
- ascendancy,
- assignment,
- auspices,
- authority,
- authorization,
- bailiwick,
- be-all and end-all,
- beat,
- blue ribbon,
- border,
- borderland,
- bossing,
- bounds,
- brevet,
- care,
- championship,
- charge,
- circle,
- circuit,
- claws,
- clutches,
- command,
- commission,
- commissioning,
- commitment,
- compass,
- confines,
- consignment,
- constitutional validity,
- constitutionalism,
- constitutionality,
- control,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- delegated authority,
- delegation,
- demesne,
- department,
- deputation,
- devolution,
- devolvement,
- directorship,
- disposition,
- district,
- domain,
- domination,
- dominion,
- due process,
- effectiveness,
- embassy,
- empery,
- empire,
- empowerment,
- entrusting,
- entrustment,
- errand,
- executorship,
- exequatur,
- eye,
- factorship,
- field,
- first place,
- first prize,
- full power,
- governance,
- government,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gripe,
- guardianship,
- guidance,
- hand,
- hands,
- headship,
- hegemony,
- height,
- helm,
- hemisphere,
- highest,
- hold,
- imperium,
- influence,
- intendance,
- iron hand,
- judicial circuit,
- justice,
- justiciability,
- keeping,
- kingship,
- lawfulness,
- leadership,
- legal form,
- legal process,
- legalism,
- legality,
- legation,
- legitimacy,
- legitimateness,
- license,
- licitness,
- lieutenancy,
- limits,
- lordship,
- management,
- mandate,
- march,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- maximum,
- might,
- ministry,
- mission,
- most,
- ne plus ultra,
- new high,
- office,
- orb,
- orbit,
- oversight,
- pale,
- palms,
- paramountcy,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronage,
- plenipotentiary power,
- power,
- power of attorney,
- power to act,
- precinct,
- prerogative,
- presidency,
- primacy,
- procuration,
- protectorship,
- province,
- proxy,
- purview,
- raj,
- range,
- reach,
- realm,
- record,
- regency,
- regentship,
- regnancy,
- reign,
- reins of government,
- responsibility,
- rightfulness,
- round,
- rule,
- safe hands,
- say,
- scope,
- sovereignty,
- sphere,
- sphere of influence,
- stewardship,
- strings,
- superintendence,
- supervision,
- supremacy,
- surveillance,
- sway,
- talons,
- task,
- territory,
- top spot,
- trust,
- trusteeship,
- tutelage,
- validity,
- vicarious authority,
- walk,
- ward,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- warrant,
- watch and ward,
- wing,
- zenith
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