rightly

[Right·ly]

With honesty

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Straightly; directly; in front.

Adverb
with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time"


adv.
Straightly; directly; in front.

adv.
According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

adv.
Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.

adv.
According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly.


Rightly

Right"ly, adv. [AS. richtlice.] 1. Straightly; directly; in front. [Obs.] Shak. 2. According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed. 3. Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.
Eve rightly called, Mother of all mankind.
4. According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly. "I can not rightly say." Shak.
Thou didst not rightly see.

Straightly; directly; in front.

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Usage Examples

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

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