Lady Justice

Lady Justice

English

Proper noun

Lady Justice (1)

Lady Justice

1. In a mythological personification, justice symbolized as a blindfolded young lady, similar to Lady Luck.
2. A female judge, as in "Her Lady Justice."

Quotations

• 1888, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Scribner's magazine, p. 35:

  ... Before our Lady Justice calm he stands

  To hear her grave, immutable commands ;

  ... She holds the balance true, with steady hands

  And strong, the little while wavereth.

Translations

female personification of justice

Japanese: 正義の婦人, 正義の女神

Spanish: la Dama de la Justicia

See also

• Lady Liberty
• Lady Luck