Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RIGHT-NESS
RIGHT-MIND'ED-NESSRIGHT-RUN-NING
RIGHT-NESS, n.
- Correctness; conformity to truth or to the divine will, which is the standard of moral rectitude. It is important that a man should have such persuasion of the rightness of his conscience as to exclude rational doubt. – South.
- Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. – Bacon.
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