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Examples
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The hardships of the service were greatly increased or diminished according to the honesty and unrightness of the officers in command.
A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman
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You want to give me hush money to swallow down an unrightness that burns my flesh?
Hungry Hearts 1920
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In the country he acted as a magistrate, with candour, unrightness, patience, and temper: unwarped by prejudice, and unbiassed by preference, he heard and determined with equal satisfaction to himself and those who appealed to his authority; petty disputes vanished under his discouraging frown, and oppression shrunk from his equal and discriminating judgment.
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However absurd the statement may appear to one who has not yet discovered the fact for himself, the cause of every man's discomfort is evil, moral evil -- first of all, evil in himself, his own sin, his own wrongness, his own unrightness; and then, evil in those he loves: with this latter I have not now to deal; the only way to get rid of it, is for the man to get rid of his own sin.
Hope of the Gospel George MacDonald 1864
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