righter

[ rahy-ter ]

noun
  1. a person who rights or redresses: a righter of wrongs.

  2. a person who advocates or endorses rights, especially equal rights, for a particular group: welfare righters.

Origin of righter

1
before 900; Middle English rightar executioner, Old English rihtere one who regulates. See right, -er1

Words Nearby righter

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How to use righter in a sentence

  • The candidates for end rush are Noble and righter, and unless some new phenomenons develop, they will hold the positions.

  • If you say yes, that you're a woman's righter out and out, you'll secretly lose the men's votes, but catch the women's.

    Mixed Faces | Roy Norton
  • It makes me feel—all you say—how right I've been to be glad, and how righter still I shall be to be myself confident.

  • I wonder if it are my heart getting righter, or my head getting wrong.

    Her Benny | Silas Kitto Hocking
  • If we look at it to see where it is wrong, we shall see this and make it righter.