rightness

[ rahyt-nis ]
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noun
  1. correctness or accuracy.

  2. propriety or fitness.

  1. moral integrity.

  2. Obsolete. straightness or directness.

Origin of rightness

1
before 950; Middle English; Old English rihtnes.See right, -ness

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How to use rightness in a sentence

  • And so these features take on a kind of moral rightness before they are judged of as pleasing to the eye and as beautiful.

    Children's Ways | James Sully
  • You may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it.

  • And that again is because they are not clean enough themselves to value rightness above rubies!

    There and Back | George MacDonald
  • And, during the years of my preparation, there never came to me a doubt of the rightness of my decision.

    Mary and I | Stephen Return Riggs
  • Again the assurance of perfect rightness came back in a mighty roar from the hills.

    Corporal Cameron | Ralph Connor

British Dictionary definitions for rightness

rightness

/ (ˈraɪtnɪs) /


noun
  1. the state or quality of being right

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