aright

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  1. adverb In a proper manner; correctly.

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  • It does credit to his hearers that they valued him aright--a modest man of simple probity. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
  • These three being established aright, the walk is even the motion of a Christian within the compass of these. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • It must come from above—that power that ran set your hearts aright, and make them to look straight above Christ Jesus came down from heaven unto the earth, and took on our flesh, that so the almighty Spirit might come down to transform our spirits, and lift them up from the earth to the heaven. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Conscience doth act its part aright, and in so far it is good, but the man is but in a miserable condition. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • You forget I grow old," Katherine retorted, smiling; "so that for miracles the time is at once too long and too short CHAPTER V TELLING HOW QUEEN MARY'S CRYSTAL BALL CAME TO FALL ON THE GALLERY FLOOR This world is unquestionably a vastly stimulating and entertaining place if you take it aright--namely, if you recognise that it is the creation of a profound humorist, is designed for wholly practical and personal uses, and proceed to adapt your conduct to that knowledge in all light-heartedness and good faith. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ariht : a-, on; see a-2 + riht, right; see right.

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  1. from Middle English aright, ariʒt, ariht, etc., from Anglo-Saxon āriht, earlier on riht, aright: on, English a; riht, English right: see right, n. The second sense is modern.
 

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