rightwise
Adjective
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Adjective
rightwise
- Obsolete spelling of righteous#English|righteous [13th-16th century]
- 1525?, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible
- I came not to call the rightwise but the synners to repentaunce.
- 2006, Percy Grainger, edited by Malcolm Gillies, David Pear
and Mark Carroll, Self-portrait of Percy Grainger, page 167: - 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.
- 1525?, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible
rightwise (rightwises, present participle rightwising; past and past participle rightwised)
- (rare) Archaic spelling of righteous#English|righteous (“make righteous; justify religiously, absolve from sin”).
- circa 1960-1977, Ernst Käsemann, page 377, quoted in 1977 in Paul and Palestinian Judaism ISBN 0-8006-1899-8, page 528:
- 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.
- 1988, The history and theology of the New Testament writings (Udo Schnelle), page 121:
- […] God's righteousness is shown in the rightwising of sinners.
- 2011-12, Christopher Vasillopulos, The Triumph of Hate: The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement ISBN 978-0-7618-5671-9, page 74:
- In other words, God rightwises or reconciles humans to Him by infusing them with faith.
- circa 1960-1977, Ernst Käsemann, page 377, quoted in 1977 in Paul and Palestinian Judaism ISBN 0-8006-1899-8, page 528:
rightwise (not comparable)
- (rare) Rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.
- 1915, Howard Pyle, The story of King Arthur and his knights (page 36)
- 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 […]
- 1969, in Topic, issues 17-18, page 37:
- […] made indubitably clear that Arthur was rightwise king of the realm […]
- 2003, Nancy McKenzie, Grail Prince, page 192:
- "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."
- 1915, Howard Pyle, The story of King Arthur and his knights (page 36)
rightwise (not comparable)
- (rare) By a rightward path; rightwards, rightwardly; clockwise (in a clockwise manner).
- 1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:
- and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.
- 2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:
- 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.
- 1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:
rightwise
- (rare) Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.
- 1866, Specifications and drawings of patents relating to electricity issued by the United States from July 1, 1884, to July 1, 1885, volume 39, published by the United States Patent Office:
- […] 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, […]
- 2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151:
- 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.
- 1866, Specifications and drawings of patents relating to electricity issued by the United States from July 1, 1884, to July 1, 1885, volume 39, published by the United States Patent Office:
- (rare) Clockwise, moving clockwise.
- 1966, P. H. Pott, Yoga and yantra: their interrelation and their significance for Indian archeology, page 66:
- 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.
- 2006, Steve Lawhead, The Silver Hand, page 20:
- 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.
- 1966, P. H. Pott, Yoga and yantra: their interrelation and their significance for Indian archeology, page 66:
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