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

It violates every principle of justice, and has not one single quality of rightfulness in it.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

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 Mill, John Stuart

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 Morley, John

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