Meaning
Whatsoever arises out of the idea of judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown, and so forth.
Additional Meaning
A lawyer, senator, doctor.
Reversed
Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.
Additional Reversed
A bad man; also a caution to put an end to a ruinous lawsuit.
King of Swords
Card No s14
Description
He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the power of life and death, in virtue of his office.
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