# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Johnny-Come-Lately; Jejeune; Joy ## Jubilance; Judicature; Jurist; Juster Johnny-Come-Lately • Johnny-come-lately (n.; pl. Johnny-come-latelies or Johnnies-come-lately; informal): a newcomer or latecomer, especially a recent adherent to a cause or trend. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • Johnny-come-lately (n.; pl. Johnny-come-latelies or Johnnies-come-lately): a brash newcomer, novice, or recruit. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • Johnny-come-lately (n.; pl. Johnny-come-latelies, or, Johnnies-come-lately): a late arrival or participant; newcomer. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • Johnny-come-lately (idiom): a newcomer or late arrival to a group or activity; [e.g.]: “The rest of the staff weren’t too fond of one of their number, a Johnny-come-lately who received praise from the manager after just one week on the job”; “Hurry up, Johnny-come-lately, we’ve already started today’s drills!”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms). • Johnny-come-lately: a newcomer; [e.g.]: “She may be a Johnny-come-lately on the board, but she’s doing a fine job with publicity”. [1830s]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms). • Johnny-come-lately (old-fashioned): someone is called a Johnny-come-lately if they get involved in an activity or organisation when it has been happening or has existed for a long time and therefore have little knowledge or experience of it; [e.g.]: “Having arrived on the scene relatively recently, she is regarded by many other managers as a Johnny-come-lately on the team”; (note): Johnny-come-lately can also be used before a noun; [e.g.]: “We advise members to ensure they are dealing with a reliable and long-established company—not some Johnny-come-lately firm which has just set up round the corner”. [this name used to be given to new or inexperienced sailors in the American navy]. ~ (Collins Co-Build Idioms Dictionary). • Johnnie-come-lately, or, JCL (n.): someone new to a situation or status; [e.g.]: “This Johnnie-come-lately doesn’t know what it was like in the old days”. ~ (McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions). • Johnny-come-lately (cliché): a late arrival; a newcomer; this term originated in the British navy in the early nineteenth-century as Johnny Newcomer, meaning a seaman new to a ship; in the United States it was changed to Johnny-come-lately, first appearing in print in Charles F. Briggs’s novel, “The Adventures of Harry Franco” (1839). ~ (Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer). Jejeune: • jejune (adj.): 1. lacking maturity; childish; [e.g.]: “surprised by their jejune responses to our problems”; 2. not interesting; dull; [e.g.]: “and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases”. (Anthony Trollope); 3. lacking in nutrition; [e.g.]: “a jejune diet”; (adv.): jejunely; (n.): jejuneness. [from Latin iēiūnus, ‘meagre’, ‘dry’, ‘fasting’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • jejune (adj.): 1. simple; naive; unsophisticated; 2. insipid; dull; dry; 3. lacking nourishment; insubstantial or barren; (adv.): jejunely; (n.): jejuneness, jejunity. [C17: from Latin jējūnus, ‘hungry’, ‘empty’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • jejune (adj.): 1. lacking interest or significance; insipid; [e.g.]: “a jejune novel”; 2. lacking maturity; childish; [e.g.]: “their jejune behaviour”; 3. lacking nutritive elements; [e.g.]: “a jejune diet”; (adv.): jejunely; (n.): jejuneness. [1605-15; from Latin jējūnus, ‘empty’, ‘poor’, ‘mean’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • jejune (adj.): 1. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; [e.g.]: “their jejune responses to our problems”; (synonyms): juvenile, puerile, adolescent; [e.g.]: “their juvenile behaviour”; “the puerile jokes”; “the adolescent insecurity”; (related words): immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity; [e.g.]: “their immature behaviour”; 2. lacking interest or significance or impact; [e.g.]: “the jejune novel”; (synonyms): insipid; [e.g.]: “an insipid personality”; (related words): uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; [e.g.]: “a very uninteresting account of her trip”); 3. lacking in nutritive value; [e.g.]: “the jejune diets of the very poor”; (synonyms): insubstantial; (related words): unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being; [e.g.]: “the unwholesome food”; “the unwholesome habits like gambling”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • jejune (adj.): 1. (formal) simple, silly, juvenile, naive, pointless, childish, immature, senseless, unsophisticated, puerile; [e.g.]: “They were of great service in correcting my jejune generalisations”; 2. (old-fashioned) dull, dry, banal, prosaic, colourless, uninteresting, inane, insipid, vapid; (informal): wishy-washy; [e.g.]: “We knew we were in for a pretty long, jejune evening”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • jejune (adj.): lacking the qualities requisite for spiritedness and originality; (synonyms): bland, innocuous, insipid, namby-pamby, vapid, washy, waterish, watery; (informal): wishy-washy. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). Joy: RESPONDENT: (...) Is there joy without feeling? RICHARD: There is joy in the sense of sensitive enjoyment – pleasure, gratification, delight, gladness, rejoicement, happiness, glee/gaiety (mirth/ merriment), and so on – but not, of course, joy in the affective meaning of the word (elation, exultation, ecstasy, euphoria, rhapsody, rapture, ravishment, transport, bliss, and so forth). (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 101, 4 October 2005). Jubilance: jubilance (n.): the act or condition of feeling an uplifting joy over a success or victory; (synonyms): exultance, exultancy, exultation, jubilation⁽⁰¹⁾, triumph. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). ⁽⁰¹⁾jubilation (n): the act or condition of feeling jubilant (adjective); viz.: feeling or expressing great joy; (n.): jubilance, jubilancy; (adv.): jubilantly. [C17: from Latin jūbilāns, ‘shouting for joy’, from jūbilāre, ‘to give a joyful whoop’, from jūbilum, ‘a shout’, ‘wild cry’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). Judicature: • judicature (n.): 1. administration of justice; 2. the position, function, or authority of a judge; 3. the jurisdiction of a law court or judge; 4. a court or system of courts of law. [Medieval Latin iūdicātūra, from feminine future participle of Latin iūdicāre, ‘to judge’; from iūdex, iūdic-, ‘judge’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • judicature (n.): 1. the administration of justice; 2. the office, function, or power of a judge; 3. the extent of authority of a court or judge; 4. a body of judges or persons exercising judicial authority; judiciary; 5. a court of justice or such courts collectively. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • judicature (n.): 1. the administration of justice, as by judges or courts; 2. the office, function, or authority of a judge; 3. the jurisdiction of a judge or court; 4. a body of judges; 5. the power of administering justice. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • judicature (n.): the authority, jurisdiction, or function of a judge or a court. ~ (Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group). • judicature (n.): a body of judges; the judges of a country collectively; legal tribunal collectively. ~ (Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms). • judicature (n.): 1. an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business; (synonyms): court, tribunal; court of justice, court of law, lawcourt, court (a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws). 2. the system of law courts which administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government; (synonyms): judicatory, judicial system, judiciary; authorities, government (the organisation which is the governing authority of a political unit); [e.g.]: “the government reduced taxes”; “the matter was referred to higher authorities”; 3. the act of meting out justice according to the law; (synonyms): administration; justice (judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments); 4. the position of judge; (synonyms): judgeship; berth, billet, post, situation, position (a position in an organisation); [e.g.]: “he occupied a post in the treasury”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). Jurist: jurist (n.): a public official who decides cases brought before a court of law in order to administer justice; (synonyms): judge, jurisprudent, justice, justice of the peace, magistrate. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus) Juster: • juster (adj.): 1. comparative form of just {viz.: (a.) factually right, correct; factual; (b.) rationally right, correct; rational; (c.) morally right, upright; righteous; (d.) fair; equitable; proper}: more just {i.e., (a.) more factual; (b.) more rational; (c.) more righteous (d.) more fair; more equitable, more proper}; (n.; pl. justers): 2. obsolete form of jouster {viz.: a person who jousts; a horse used as a mount when jousting}. [etymology: 1. just (adj.) +‎ -er; 2. just (v.) +‎ -er; from Middle English juste, from Old French, from Latin jūstus, ‘lawful’, ‘deserved’, ‘righteous’; adjectival derivative of jūs, ‘justice’, ‘law’, ‘right’]. [curly-bracketed inserts added]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). __________ Random Literary Samples. • “I should proceed to a view of the life, character, and doctrines of Jesus, who, sensible of incorrectness of their ideas of the Deity, and of morality, endeavored to bring them to the principles of a pure deism, and juster notions of the attributes of God, to reform their moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice and philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state”. [italics added]. ~ (from “Jesus Christ: A Heretical Appreciation”, by Alex Knapp, Editor-in-Chief, Heretical Ideas Magazine; April 9, 2009). • “But if this is a new emergent phase of democratic and quasi democratic regimes, can this executive power linked to globalisation be reoriented to better, non-commercial goals, like climate change, global hunger, or global poverty? There is an ironic possibility in all of this. Can a president intent on fighting for a better and juster democracy actually use that expanded executive power to do this?”. [italics added]. ~ (from “‘Shadow Elite’: What’s Behind Surging Executive Power? Globalisation”, by Saskia Sassen, Sociology Professor, Columbia University; Jun 15, 2010; Updated May 25, 2011, Huff-Post). • “For affluent Americans outraged by the fiscal and social consequences of tax cuts handed to them by President George W. Bush, a trio of similarly dismayed academics has furnished a way for them to put their money where their mouth is. (...). ‘People are privately incredibly generous’, said Prof. Daniel Markovits. ‘There are a quite a few people who would like society as a whole to be juster, to let their private commitments be translated into a langauge that says, ‘We are in this together’”. [italics added]. ~ (from “‘Give It Back For Jobs’ Lets Affluent Return Tax Cuts”, by Amy Lee; Dec 30, 2010; Updated May 25, 2011, Huff-Post). • “It was good to feel that we had not grown too wise to harbour thoughts of change and redress, or too much ironed out with doctrine to be resigned. I confess it is long since I have eaten my heart in fury, in impatience, in wildness, but last night we awoke the radical in one another. We condemned the system. We placed ourselves outside the regime, refusing aught at its hands, registering our protest, hating the inordinate scheme of things only as hotly as we loved the juster hand of a future time. It is curious that we, offsprings of parvenue success, should be capable of such repudiation”. [italics added]. ~ (pp. 81-82, Letter XIII: ‘From The Same To The Same’ in “The Kempton-Wace Letters”; An epistolary novel by Jack London, a.k.a. John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916) and Anna Strunsky; 1903, Macmillan, New York). • “With the increase of capital, the competition for safe investments, and the consequent fall of the interest rate, the principal which today earns a comfortable income would not then support a bare existence. Saving toward old age would cease among the working classes. (...elided...). That the decadent and barbarous peoples will be crushed is a fair presumption; likewise that the stronger breeds will survive, entering upon the transition stage to which all the world must ultimately come. This change of direction must be either toward industrial oligarchies or socialism. Either the functions of private corporations will increase till they absorb the central government, or the functions of government will increase till it absorbs the corporations. Much may be said on the chance of the oligarchy. Should an old manufacturing nation lose its foreign trade, it is safe to predict that a strong effort would be made to build a socialistic government, but it does not follow that this effort would be successful. With the moneyed class controlling the State and its revenues and all the means of subsistence, and guarding its own interests with jealous care, it is not at all impossible that a strong curb could be put upon the masses till the crisis were past. It has been done before. There is no reason why it should not be done again. At the close of the last century, such a movement was crushed by its own folly and immaturity. In 1871 the soldiers of the economic rulers stamped out, root and branch, a whole generation of militant socialists. (...elided...). Once the crisis were past, the ruling class, still holding the curb in order to make itself more secure, would proceed to readjust things and to balance consumption with production. Having a monopoly of the safe investments, the great masses of unremunerative capital would be directed, not to the production of more surplus value, but to the making of permanent improvements, which would give employment to the people, and make them content with the new order of things. Highways, parks, public buildings, monuments, could be builded; nor would it be out of place to give better factories and homes to the workers. Such in itself would be socialistic, save that it would be done by the oligarchs, a class apart. With the interest rate down to zero, and no field for the investment of sporadic capital, savings among the people would utterly cease, and old-age pensions be granted as a matter of course. (...elided...). In other words, the oligarchy would mean the capitalisation of labor and the enslavement of the whole population⁽*⁾. But it would be a fairer, juster form of slavery than any the world has yet seen. The per capita wage and consumption would be increased, and, with a stringent control of the birth rate, there is no reason why such a country should not be so ruled through many generations”. [italics and emphasis added]. ~ (pp. 186-191, “The Question of The Maximum”, by Jack London, a.k.a. John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916); Speech first given before the Oakland Section of the Socialist Labor Party on Sunday, November 26, 1899 at the G.A.R. Hall, 419 13th Street). ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (left-clicking the yellow rectangle with the capital ‘U’ opens a new web page). ⁽*⁾[Editorial Note]: Just by the bye, as it is completely off-topic, it was quite prescient of Mr. John Chaney a.k.a. ‘Jack London’ to have foreseen, back in 1898 when he first penned those words for his 1899 speech at the ‘Grand Army of the Republic Hall’ in Oakland, California, how certain oligarchs could enslave the entire population through the capitalisation of labour (as envisioned by a recently-crowned monarch in his keynote “sustainable markets initiative” address to the World Economic Forum at their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland). The entirety of Mr. Chaney’s speech—now constituting Chapter Four: ‘The Question of the Maximum’ of his 1905 book “War of The Classes”—is worth reading as he gives a potted history of the ‘Industrial Revolution’ in general, and, in particular, the transformation of national economies from agrarian-based aristocracies to manufactories-based mercantilists. RETURN TO DEFINITIONS INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. 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