rightnesses

Instances of "rightnesses" are displaying wisdom and dealing justly, instances of proprieties or intermediate acts are marrying, going on an embassy, and dialectic.

Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock

But, as often happens, the generic term got determined in use to a specific meaning, so that intermediate acts are commonly spoken of as "proprieties" in opposition to "rightnesses."

Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock

Modesty and self-submission, love and service are, in the right system of my beliefs, far more fundamental rightnesses and duties.

First and Last Things 1906

Jack's rightnesses were not a bit like those of nature.

A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

Basil, stayed themselves on the assurances of his charm, his ease, his rightnesses; but the worst bitterness of all lurked under these consolations; for, though one was lost, the other was not securely gained.

A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

One's affections, compounded as they are in the strangest way of physical reactions and emotional associations, one's implicit pledges to particular people, one's involuntary reactions, one's pride and jealousy, all that one might call the dramatic side of one's life, may be in conflict with the definitely seen rightnesses of one's higher use .... "

The Research Magnificent 1906