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 is the glory of England that the rightfulness of the Stamp Act was in England itself a subject of dispute.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
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
And as a matter of theory, what could be more rational and defensible than such an intervention made systematic, with its rightfulness and disinterestedness universally recognised?
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre by John Morley
This is inconsistent with the eternal principles of justice and rightfulness.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
