rightfulness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Middle English riȝtfulnesse, rigtfulnes, riȝtvolnesse, equivalent to rightful + -ness.

§ 3 From the moment when I confessed my decision to stay we gave no further thought to the rightfulness or wisdom of spending the next few hours together. — The Passionate Friends, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But still although we fail of perfect rightfulness, Seek we to tame those childish superfluities: Let us not wink though void of purest sightfulness For what can breed more peevish incongruities, Than man to yield to female lamentations: Let us some grammar learn of more congruities. — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney
Knowledge of the right rule may be present, nay the rightfulness of its authority may be acknowledged, and yet time after time it may be disobeyed; the will may be good and yet overmastered by the force of desire, so that the act done is contrary to the agent’s will. — The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle, Aristotle

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