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righteousness

[rahy-chuhs-nis] / ˈraɪ tʃəs nɪs /




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The service heard how she had lived with beauty, goodness and righteousness.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

A theater can scarcely contain the love the audience develops for her, such is her determination and the righteousness of her quest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 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

Instead, he seems as if he’s trying to lacquer on a veneer of righteousness to some very nasty business.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

For which, each night when I said my prayers, my mother always asked that I remember this same McFergus, and pray that he was well, and still walked in the ways of righteousness.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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