Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹaɪtʃəs/
righteous
- Free from sin or guilt.
- Moral and virtuous, to the point of sanctimonious.
- Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art.
- Justified morally.
- righteous indignation
- (slang, US) Awesome; great.
- 1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story (page 191)
- He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
- 1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story (page 191)
- German: gerecht
- Portuguese: justo
- Russian: справедли́вый
- Spanish: correcto, bienhechor, justo
righteous (righteouses, present participle righteousing; past and past participle righteoused)
- To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 101:
- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 101:
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