rightful
adjective
having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate.
rightfulness
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a word derived from
rightful.
Example Sentences
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It has to do with determination and the rightfulness and truthfulness of ideas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011
And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.
From The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
Mr. Berrien of Georgia made an exhaustive speech, inquiring into the rightfulness of title, and urged the line of 49°.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
They entirely absorb themselves with unflagging zeal in a work that perfectly corresponds to their capabilities and impulses, without any doubt of its rightfulness and import.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
She wasn't at all sure of the rightfulness of her position.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
