What is "righteous"

Usage examples of "righteous".

The advocate of equal rights is preoccupied by these opportunities for the abusive exercise of power, because from his point of view rights exercised in the interest of inequality have ceased to be righteous.

But was the righteous Ali Baba ready to take this earthenware cup that is now in his hands and smash it into bits against this nearby tent pole?

Wilberforce in righteous indignation, her massive breastworks rising under the flopping brown boucle dress like unscalable fortifications.

She radiated such assurance, and such righteous anger, that even Brode retreated a step as Shra walked to where he stood with Barsarbe.

The First ordered every able-bodied Cabalist to harry the invaders until they were a mile outside the city walls, and the righteous crusat raid on Cabal City ended in disaster.

Upside, enslaved here to the shackles of righteous employment, too tired to think straight, and Chyde is free as a bee down Southstairs, out of mortal company, light, and beauty.

Syn smiled and promised Cicely that although he could not stop preaching against this rascal, he would at least modify his righteous rage, adding in a more serious tone that perhaps in the near future it might not be necessary to preach upon that vein at all, since already it was evident that the Scarecrow was showing signs of repentance, and that he, as shepherd of the flock, hoped that he might be able to lead one more stray lamb into the fold.

So now, at a hint from Nana Sahib, the Dewan seized upon Ajeet, voicing a righteous indignation at his crime of decoity, and gave him the alternative of being strangled with a bow-string or forcing the Gulab to go to the camp of Amir Khan to betray him.

El Dorado in its righteous struggle against the invaders, and would sell it all the war materiel it needed.

No, we must attack now, before he awaits uscatch him unawares, overwhelm his guardsmenthey do not much outnumber you who are hereslay Ermanaric in one quick, clean blow, and afterward call a folkmoot to pick a new king who shall be righteous.

The Pharisees looked for a restoration of the righteous from their graves to a bodily life.

Justin and Gribble quailed before his raucous, righteous anger and authority.

But the main sinners, in the eyes of the righteous, were those who guzzled at every chance they could muster.

If you had killed him before I should have said nothing, but at Rome it is different, and you would have reason to repent of having indulged your righteous indignation.

And all through history it had been this way, Can-dace realized: that the crimes of the wicked paled into insignificance before the hecatombs piled up by the righteous, the self-appointed just.