Definition of Rightnesses

1. Noun. (plural of rightness) ¹

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Definition of Rightnesses

1. rightness [n] - See also: rightness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rightnesses

rightie
righties
righting
righting reflexes
rightings
rightio
rightish
rightism
rightisms
rightist
rightists
rightless
rightly
rightmost
rightness
rightnesses
righto
rightos
rights
rights-of-way
rights issue
rights of entry
rights of reentry
rights of way
rights offering
rightsholder
rightsholders
rightsize
rightsized
rightsizes

Literary usage of Rightnesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock, George Stock (1908)
"Instances of rightnesses are displaying wisdom and dealing justly; instances of proprieties or intermediate acts are marrying, going on an embassy, ..."

2. Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock (1908)
"... that was done as the result of the best disposition.2 All the acts of / the sage were 'perfect proprieties,' which were f called ' rightnesses. ..."

3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1872)
"Real, but only partially seen ; still more partially told- The rightnesses only perceived ; the felicities only remembered ; the landscape seen as if spring ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1873)
"... "absolute sanctities," and the "eternal rightnesses," enact for us a higher law than that on which the law and the prophets hang ? We do not, indeed, ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1873)
"... the "absolute sanctities," and the "eternal rightnesses," enact for us a higher law than that on which the law and the prophets hang? We do not, indeed, ..."

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