Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
righteousness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Righteousness.
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- noun obsolete
righteousness
Etymologies
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Examples
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And they rose in their seats, those twelve of Iar, and they swore by the name of Him Who is from everlasting that they would do His rightwiseness.
Ulysses 2003
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And they rose in their seats, those twelve of Iar, and they swore by the name of Him Who is from everlasting that they would do His rightwiseness.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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All she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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‘rightwiseness’, as it would once more accurately have been written, for ‘righteous’ is a corruption of ‘rightwise’, remains, but its correspondent ‘wrongwiseness’ has been taken; ‘inroad’ continues, but
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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All she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God’s rightwiseness to withsay.
Ulysses 2003
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