rightfulness
Example Sentences
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It has to do with determination and the rightfulness and truthfulness of ideas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011
He demanded, only, that Jason should show his rightfulness to be deemed a king's son by some act of heroic bravery.
From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.
From The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
The bystanders seemed to acquiesce in the justness and rightfulness of the action.
From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston
Nothing was too sacred for her to question, as to its rightfulness in principle and practice.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
