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righter

[ rahy-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who rights right or redresses:

    a righter of wrongs.

  2. a person who advocates or endorses rights, right, especially equal rights, right, for a particular group:

    welfare righters.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of righter1

before 900; Middle English rightar executioner, Old English rihtere one who regulates. See right, -er 1

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Example Sentences

The candidates for end rush are Noble and Righter, and unless some new phenomenons develop, they will hold the positions.

If you say yes, that you're a woman's righter out and out, you'll secretly lose the men's votes, but catch the women's.

It makes me feel—all you say—how right I've been to be glad, and how righter still I shall be to be myself confident.

I wonder if it are my heart getting righter, or my head getting wrong.

If we look at it to see where it is wrong, we shall see this and make it righter.

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