Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-RIGHT'EOUS-NESS, n. [unri'chusness.]

Injustice; a violation of the divine law, or of the plain principles of justice and equity; wickedness. Unrighteousness may consist of a single unjust act, but more generally, when applied to persons, it denotes an habitual course of wickedness. Rom. i. vi. 2 Cor. vi. Every transgression of the law is unrighteousness. Hall