rightfulness
Example Sentences
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It has to do with determination and the rightfulness and truthfulness of ideas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011
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
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 Francis Rolt-Wheeler
In the words of an American newspaper, 'the chances of convincing them of the rightfulness of Canada's claim are about the same as the prospect of a thaw in Hades.'
From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Oscar Douglas Skelton
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
