unrightfulness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being unrightful.

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  • noun The state or quality of being unrightful.

Etymologies

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unrightful +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Beccaria, and other writers on crimes and punishments, had satisfied the reasonable world of the unrightfulness and inefficacy of the punishment of crimes by death; and hard labor on roads, canals, and other public works, had been suggested as a proper substitute.

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • Beccaria, and other writers on crimes and punishments, had satisfied the reasonable world of the unrightfulness and inefficacy of the punishment of crimes by death; and hard labor on roads, canals and other public works, had been suggested as a proper substitute.

    Autobiography 1821

  • Beccaria, and other writers on crimes and punishments, had satisfied the reasonable world of the unrightfulness and inefficacy of the punishment of crimes by death; and hard labor on roads, canals, and other public works, had been suggested as a proper substitute.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784

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