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

This brings up the whole question of the rightfulness of war.

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

Pursuing your doubt as to the rightfulness of his property in these things, you might admit he deserved a certain reasonable fee for the rough care he had taken of the land and herds.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

To be scrupulous is to be solicitous as to the rightfulness of a thing proposed to be done.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

Chase, of Ohio, impressive in appearance but stiff in manner, argued weightily for the constitutionality and rightfulness of the Wilmot Proviso.

From Stephen Arnold Douglas by Brown, William Garrott