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It has to do with determination and the rightfulness and truthfulness of ideas.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2011

It violates every principle of justice, and has not one single quality of rightfulness in it.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

The bystanders seemed to acquiesce in the justness and rightfulness of the action.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

And as a matter of theory, what could be more rational and defensible than such an intervention made systematic, with its rightfulness and disinterestedness universally recognised?

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre by Morley, John

Secession and slavery aside, for he believed in the rightfulness of both, as we learned on arguing with him, it would be hard to find a more lovable character than Charles K. Hall.

From Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 by Sprague, Homer B. (Homer Baxter)