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Definition of Rightnesses
1. rightness [n] - See also: rightness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rightnesses
Literary usage of Rightnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock, George Stock (1908)
"Instances of rightnesses are displaying wisdom and dealing justly; instances of
proprieties or intermediate acts are marrying, going on an embassy, ..."
2. Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock (1908)
"... that was done as the result of the best disposition.2 All the acts of / the
sage were 'perfect proprieties,' which were f called ' rightnesses. ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1872)
"Real, but only partially seen ; still more partially told- The rightnesses only
perceived ; the felicities only remembered ; the landscape seen as if spring ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1873)
"... "absolute sanctities," and the "eternal rightnesses," enact for us a higher
law than that on which the law and the prophets hang ? We do not, indeed, ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1873)
"... the "absolute sanctities," and the "eternal rightnesses," enact for us a higher
law than that on which the law and the prophets hang? We do not, indeed, ..."
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