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
This brings up the whole question of the rightfulness of war.
From Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 by Homer B. (Homer Baxter) Sprague
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 Richard B. Westbrook
The rightfulness of his claim was, however, a matter of little consequence, except so far as the moral influence of it aided him in gaining possession.
From William the Conqueror Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Mr. Berrien of Georgia made an exhaustive speech, inquiring into the rightfulness of title, and urged the line of 49°.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
