rightfully
Adverb
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Adverb
rightfully
- In accordance with what is right or just; fairly.
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
- Rightly, correctly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- Ne euer will it breake, ne euer bend. / Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
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