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righteousness

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Righteousness \Right"eous*ness\, n. [AS. rihtw[=i]snes.] The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude. Note: Righteousness, as used in Scripture and theology, in which it chiefly occurs, is nearly equivalent to holiness, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. adhering to moral principles [ant: unrighteousness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude. Righteousness, as used in Scripture and theology, in which it chiefly occurs, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English rehtwisnisse ; see righteous + -ness .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Righteousness (also called rectitude ) is a theological concept in Christianity , Judaism , and Islam . It is an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been "judged" or "reckoned" as ...

Usage examples of righteousness.

I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

Anyway, the hound guarded in its lifetime the king of Upper and Lower Egypt and I hope it was admitted to Sekhtet Hetes, the land of the happy dead and passed the test of being weighed against the Feather of Righteousness.

Secondly, because this would have lessened the merit of faith, which He came to offer men as the way to righteousness, according to Rom.

Victory would carry its own affirmation of the righteousness of Lether and its ways.

I depended entirely on the bounty of free grace, holding all the righteousness of man as filthy rags, and believing in the momentous and magnificent truth that, the more heavily loaden with transgressions, the more welcome was the believer at the throne of grace.

Therefore sanctifying grace is given not only for the remission of sin, but also for growth and stability in righteousness.

Wherefore the holiness of righteousness is required in the minister, that he may be suitable for his ministry: for which reason he acts unbecomingly and sins, if while in a state of sin he attempts to fulfil that ministry.

The screams of his wife were nothing compared to his fury and the righteousness of his vengeance, but a mistake was made, a terrible unrecallable error that he lived long enough and in enough agony to regret.

Van der Valk guessed, indeed, that this righteousness was often a source of conflict in his house.

The Downfall of Autocracy, and Complete Victory for the Cause of Righteousness and Freedom.

But the Baroness had a deep-rooted prejudice in favour of the old aristocracy, and guessed that it would afterwards be counted to her for righteousness if she could be the first to offer boundless sympathy and limited help to the distressed family.

From all these instances it is clear that Christ, when He willed, changed the minds of men by His Divine power, not only by the bestowal of righteousness and the infusion of wisdom, which pertains to the end of miracles, but also by outwardly drawing men to Himself, or by terrifying or stupefying them, which pertains to the miraculous itself.

No doubt you mean well, but I will homologate no course which fastens evil on a man whose righteousness has been abundantly proven.

By the righteousness of God, the True One, the testimony shown forth by His Remembrance is like unto a sun which the hand of the merciful Lord hath raised high in the midmost heart of the heaven, wherefrom it shineth in the plenitude of its meridian splendour.

God hangs the righteousness of the moral system embracing all souls everywhere, and to misconceive or misinterpret God, sins against the highest interests of the world, since life never rises higher than the divinity it conceives and worships.