aright
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of aright
First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English ariht, on riht. See a- 1, right
Example Sentences
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If I have read Aright Johanna's soul, her modest heart's Her fairest jewel.
From Maid of Orleans by Schiller, Friedrich
First Voice.Is it true besides— Aright true—that mine orient Star will give Her name of "Bright and Morning-Star" to Him,— And take the fairness of his virtue back To cover loss and sadness?
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
No king of mine is he—we are equal, weighed Aright in state, though here his throne stand higher.
From Locrine: a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Aright, a-rīt′, adv. in a right way: rightly.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Aright hast thou thy share, For thou didst hear me friendship / unto these knights declare, And now the peace hast broken, / that I to them did give.
From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry
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