righteousness
Example Sentences
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“Alas,” Chen says, “neither virtue nor righteousness is worth a single penny in today’s China.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Among them, as with the Jews, generosity was not charity but, if I may, righteousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
The service heard how she had lived with beauty, goodness and righteousness.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Even after Blanc arrives, he’s confounded to find himself occasionally standing on the sidelines, a bystander in Jud’s moral crusade to herd his congregation toward righteousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
Vocabulary lists containing righteousness
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Christmas Carol Vocab: A Lyrical Lexicon
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