righteousness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of being morally good and doing what is right.

   He spoke with the calm righteousness of someone who had nothing to hide.

2. 2
   noun

   Holiness; living in line with religious or divine law.

   The sermon called on believers to seek righteousness before God.

From earlier rightwiseness, from Middle English rightwisnes, from Old English rihtwīsnes (“justice”), equivalent to righteous + -ness.

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