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adverb

Rightly adv.

Straightly; directly; in front. (Obs.)

According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately. "Eve rightly called, Mother of all mankind."

According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly. "I can not rightly say." "Thou didst not rightly see."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rightly" Quotes from Famous Books

... rejected lover, Mortimer Jerrold, who conceived two bright ideas for conquering her independence of mind, apparently for the benefit of his rival. First he contrived to get Harold Glaive, the young socialist, selected as a candidate for Parliament, hoping (if I read the gentleman's motive rightly) that his probable failure would touch the place where her heart should have been. This scheme did not go very well, for he was chosen to contest the seat held by Dahlia's own father (which caused a lot of trouble), and in ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920 • Various

... upon the Age for Love was about to have a living commentary! How it would illumine his words to hear him conversing with these new arrivals! One was a young girl of possibly twenty—a Russian if I rightly understood the name. She was rather tall, with a long face lighted up by two very gentle black eyes, singular in their fire and intensity. She bore a striking resemblance to the portrait attributed to Froncia ...

— International Short Stories: French • Various

... be to combine devotion to the Church with discrimination and candour in the treatment of her opponents: to reconcile freedom of inquiry with implicit faith, and to discountenance what is untenable and unreal, without forgetting the tenderness due to the weak, or the reverence rightly claimed for what is sacred. Submitting without reserve to infallible authority, it will encourage a habit of manly investigation on subjects of ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... the horn's face were there All the kin of letters Cut aright and reddened, How should I rede them rightly? The ling-fish long Of the land of Hadding, Wheat-ears ...

— The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous

... tried his public before he tries the publisher—that is, before he expects the publisher to run a risk for him. But I will make any effort you like to suggest for any work of yours; I only tell you how things are. By the way, if I ever told you that Tennyson was ill, I may as rightly tell you now that he is well, again, or was when I last heard of him. I do not know him personally. Also Harriet Martineau can walk five miles a day with ease, and believes in mesmerism with all her strength. Mr. Putnam had ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

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