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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,834 words match “RIG”

RIGHT-MINDED a.

Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.

RIGHT-RUNNING a.

Straight; direct.

To do justice to. [Obs.] Relieve [marginal reading, righten] the opressed. Isa. i. 17.

Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.

Made righteous. [Obs.]

RIGHTEOUSLY adv.

In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.

RIGHTEOUSNESS n. 4 definitions

The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.

One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong. Shelton.

RIGHTFUL a. 4 definitions

Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Chaucer.

RIGHTFULLY adv.

According to right or justice.

RIGHTFULNESS n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.

Destitute of right. Sylvester.

RIGHTLY adv. 4 definitions

According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

RIGHTNESS n. 2 definitions

Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. Bacon.

Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.

RIGHTWISE a. 2 definitions

Righteous. [Obs.] Wyclif.

RIGHTWISELY adv.

Righteously. [Obs.]

RIGHTWISENESS n.

Righteousness. [Obs.] In doom and eke in rightwisnesse. Chaucer.

RIGID a. 2 definitions

Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton.

RIGIDITY n. 3 definitions

The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.