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
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
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
But lawyers could still distinguish, and the hyperloyal could still maintain the essential rightfulness of the verdict.
From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt
And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.
From The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
