Righteousness
['raɪtʃəsnəs] or ['raɪtʃəsnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
(n.) A righteous act, or righteous quality.
(n.) The act or conduct of one who is righteous.
(n.) The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of justification.
迭戈手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Piety, godliness, holiness, sanctity, purity, virtue, goodness, integrity, honesty, justice.[2]. Rectitude of conduct, practice of right, doing right, going straight, acting from principle.
艾维斯編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See RANSACK]
杰拉尔丁校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley a characteristic passage from which is here given:
手打:利奥波德
例句/造句/用法:
- Self-righteousness is not religion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She destroyed her prestige by disregarding her own teaching of righteousness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Even his life-long righteousness, however, would not quite deliver him from the inner horror. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Kantos Kan with the others who had sworn allegiance to me still stood upon the Throne of Righteousness with me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Judging merely by their general style, and without other evidence, one might easily suspect that self-righteousness was their specialty. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Soldiers of Helium, let no prisoner leave the Throne of Righteousness. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Many of us are ready to grant that in the past men's motives were deeper than their intellects: we forgive them with a kind of self-righteousness which says that they knew not what they did. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Politics does not exist for the sake of demonstrating the superior righteousness of anybody. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- They involved an assertion of the unity of God and some acceptable generalizations about righteousness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She became rapt, abstracted in her conviction of exclusive righteousness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Break thy chain, said Benedict, for the true servant of God is chained not to rocks by iron, but to righteousness by Christ. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It may be so, to such as you who know no righteousness, and no appointment except Satan's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He was limited, BORNE, subject to his necessity, in the last issue, for goodness, for righteousness, for oneness with the ultimate purpose. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Art came before ?sthetics, and righteousness before ethics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But when did ever self-righteousness know the sentiment of pity? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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