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

He demanded, only, that Jason should show his rightfulness to be deemed a king's son by some act of heroic bravery.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

The rightfulness of such expenditures upon the credit of the government depends upon the object to be secured.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

Secession and slavery aside, for he believed in the rightfulness of both, as we learned on arguing with him, it would be hard to find a more lovable character than Charles K. Hall.

From Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 by Sprague, Homer B. (Homer Baxter)

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 Ryerson, Egerton