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Answer for the clue "Anything in accord with principles of justice ", 12 letters:
rightfulness

Word definitions for rightfulness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being rightful.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim" [syn: right ] [ant: wrong , wrong ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rightfulness \Right"ful*ness\, n. The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice. Moral rectitude; righteousness. [Obs.] --Wyclif. We fail of perfect rightfulness. --Sir P. Sidney.

Usage examples of rightfulness.

In Kentucky perhaps, in many of the slave States certainly, you are trying to establish the rightfulness of slavery by reference to the Bible.

Nor as regards the rightfulness of vivisection as a method either of study or demonstration, was there at that period any question in my mind.

Indeed, it is almost, interestingly enough, as though they were made for the coffle, and understood the appropriateness, the rightfulness, of their place within it.