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Have the support of fact, justice, or reason. For example, Nancy's parents were in the right when they took her teacher to task , or, as Shakespeare put it in Richard III (5:3): “He was in the right, and so indeed it is.” [Late 1400s] Also see the antonym in the wrong .Advertisement
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