Righteousness
['raɪtʃəsnəs] or ['raɪtʃəsnɪs]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Unserious Contents or Definition
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:
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Examples
- Self-righteousness is not religion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She destroyed her prestige by disregarding her own teaching of righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even his life-long righteousness, however, would not quite deliver him from the inner horror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Kantos Kan with the others who had sworn allegiance to me still stood upon the Throne of Righteousness with me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Judging merely by their general style, and without other evidence, one might easily suspect that self-righteousness was their specialty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Soldiers of Helium, let no prisoner leave the Throne of Righteousness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Politics does not exist for the sake of demonstrating the superior righteousness of anybody. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They involved an assertion of the unity of God and some acceptable generalizations about righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She became rapt, abstracted in her conviction of exclusive righteousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Break thy chain, said Benedict, for the true servant of God is chained not to rocks by iron, but to righteousness by Christ. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It may be so, to such as you who know no righteousness, and no appointment except Satan's. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was limited, BORNE, subject to his necessity, in the last issue, for goodness, for righteousness, for oneness with the ultimate purpose. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Art came before ?sthetics, and righteousness before ethics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But when did ever self-righteousness know the sentiment of pity? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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