righteousness
Example Sentences
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“Alas,” Chen says, “neither virtue nor righteousness is worth a single penny in today’s China.”
The Jewish faith has a moral obligation of tzedakah, loosely defined as charity but literally translated as righteousness.
Among them, as with the Jews, generosity was not charity but, if I may, righteousness.
The service heard how she had lived with beauty, goodness and righteousness.
From BBC
A theater can scarcely contain the love the audience develops for her, such is her determination and the righteousness of her quest.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
