rightwise

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Obsolete spelling of righteous .

   • I came not to call the rightwise, but the synners to repentaunce.
   • And Plato sayeth that it is extreme iniustice he to seme rightwise which in dede is uniuste.
   • Man feels maddened by his pent-uppness, & woman seems to understand that a rightwise man's cruel-fain-th is part of his hunger for women.
2. 2

   Archaic spelling of righteous (“make righteous

   Archaic spelling of righteous (“make righteous; justify religiously, absolve from sin”).

   • God's righteousness is what it must be as the power which rightwises the sinner, namely, God's victory over against the rebellion of the world.
   • […] God's righteousness is shown in the rightwising of sinners.
   • In other words, God rightwises or reconciles humans to Him by infusing them with faith.
3. 3

   Rightly (correctly or justly)

   Rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.

   • And, after that fourth trial, sundry of the kings and many of the lesser barons and knights and all of the commons cried out that these were trials enough, and that Arthur had assuredly approved himself to be rightwise King […]
   • […] made indubitably clear that Arthur was rightwise king of the realm […]
   • "That it was Maximus's sword which Merlin found for Arthur and fixed in the stone of Lludyn's Hill by magic arts so that none but he who was rightwise born King of all the Britons could pull it out."
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   1. 4

      By a rightward path

      By a rightward path; rightwards, rightwardly; clockwise (in a clockwise manner).

      • and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.
      • Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.
   2. 5

      Rightward (to or from the right side)

      Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.

      • […] that, abutting against the end of H, or nearly so, it will lock said bar as against a return or rightwise motion, and then said bar will be locked as against a reverse motion, and, being locked, its flop D cannot be rotated back, […]
      • The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.
   3. 6

      Clockwise, moving clockwise.

      • In Tibet the compass points are described in a rightwise circle; one speaks there of east-south and west-north instead of south-east and north-west.
      • Then he stepped before me, and I bade him walk three times in a rightwise circle around me. "This is embarrassing," he growled through clenched teeth as he passed the first time.

The neighborhood

• neighborrightways
• neighborrightwiseness
• neighborleftwise