rightness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RIGHTNESS, noun 1. Correctness; conformity to truth or to the divine will, which is the standard of moral rectitude. It is important that a man should have such persuasion of the rightness of his conscience as to exclude rational doubt. 2. Straightness; as the rightness of a line.
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