rightfulness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RIGHTFULNESS, noun 1. Justice; accordance with the rules of right; as the rightfulness of a claim to lands or tenements. 2. Moral rectitude. But still although we fail of perfect rightfulness [Not usual.]
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