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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·ju·ry n.; pl. Injuries   Any damage or hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
    For he that doeth injury shall receive that that he did evil.   --Wyclif(Col. iii. 25).
    Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments.   --I. Watts.
 Riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
 And injury and outrage.   --Milton.
 Note: ☞ Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional doing of wrong.
 Syn: -- Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong; evil; injustice.
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