rightfulness

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It has to do with determination and the rightfulness and truthfulness of ideas.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2011

It violates every principle of justice, and has not one single quality of rightfulness in it.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

We will, therefore, quote some considerations touching the rightfulness of inquiry.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

Does any sane person hold a baby, up to three years old, and often, indeed, much later, responsible for the state of its temper, or for the rightfulness of its action?

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

In matters internal to a state, the bare existence of a law imposes an obligation upon the individual citizen, whatever his personal conviction of its rightfulness or its wisdom.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)