English Explanatory Dictionary

victor's justice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Unfair judgement in which an entity gives preferential treatment to its own forces over those of a defeated enemy.

Word forms

victor's justice

Etymology

According to Wikipedia, first used in English by Richard Minear in 1971. If so, probably a calque of German Siegerjustiz, which is attestable since at least the 1950s, originally with reference to the Nuremberg trials (and related Allied trials against alleged German war criminals).

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