WordNet
adv. by reason of one's own ability or ownership etc.; "she's a rich woman in her own right rather than by inheritance"; "an excellent novel in its own right" [syn: in one's own right, in his own right, in her own right]
Usage examples of "in its own right".
Wonderful, not just in the fact that he had it, but wonderful in its own right.
Only forty-nine light-years from the Haven System, it was a major industrial node, which made it an important target in its own right.
That made it a formidable slicer and dicer in its own right, yet its real function was mainly to form the basic matrix for the tool's force field and give the force blade balance and some heft.
But to mount it on a fighter already formidably armed in its own right .
It was that fusion of strengths, each potent in its own right and yet so much more than the sum of their parts when all of them flowed together, which let her catch the jumpsuit without even a change of expression or the flicker of an eyelid.
This story was one of three that tied for the Best Short Story award and is, in its own right, a fine piece of fiction.
Motherhood, the gospel according to Skinner stated, was a God-given duty, and payment in its own right.
But wearing a helmet of rubberized burlap that covered your entire head and neck was a torment in its own right, the more so as days got ever hotter and muggier.
Colonel Galpa felt a gulf between them, as palpable in its own right as he might feel standing at the edge of a deep canyon, struck by a chill vacancy inspired by the thought of a misstep.
Though his story is significant in its own right, Hightower also plays an important, if fleeting, role in the lives of both Christmas and Grove.
Soon the Union will be sundered, our South will be a country in its own right at last.
He suspected that over a few generations the band would become a clan in its own right.
Neither the Muura nor the Huurwa was a big enough river to be impressive in its own right, and one stretch of jungle looked much like another.