VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS
IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS
1. Moral obligations
Right.
[Antonyms: wrong.]
[Nouns] right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness; summum jus.
justice, equity; equitableness; propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis.
Astraea, Nemesis, Themis.
scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique; clear stage, fair field and no favor.
morals (duty) [more]; law [more]; honor (probity) [more]; virtue [more].
[Verbs] be right; stand to reason.
see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense (reward) [more]; bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem.
deserve (be entitled to) [more].
[Adjectives] right, good; just, reasonable; fit [more]; equal, equable, equatable; evenhanded, fair.
legitimate, justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be; lawful (permitted) [more], (legal) [more]. deserved [more].
[Adverbs] rightly; au-bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in equity, in reason.
without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons; upon even terms.
[Phrases] Dieu et mon droit; "in equal scale weighing delight and dole" [Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Cicero]; justititiae soror incorrupta fides; justitia virtutem regina; "thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just" [Henry VI].
