honesty, justness, fairness; virtuousness, morality
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Righteousness Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of justification.
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of justification.
(n.)
The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
(n.)
The act or conduct of one who is righteous.
The act or conduct of one who is righteous.
(n.)
A righteous act, or righteous quality.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA righteous act, or righteous quality.
righteousness
\right"eous*ness\, n. [as. rihtwīsnes.]
1. 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, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart, and conformity of life to the divine law.
2. a righteous act, or righteous quality. all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. lxiv. 6.
3. the act or conduct of one who is righteous. blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times. cvi. 3.
4. (theol.) the state of being right with god; justification; the work of christ, which is the ground of justification. there are two kinds of christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, hope, and charity, and other christian virtues. only for the righteousness of christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. --westminster catechism.
Rectitude.
Righteousness, (n.)
A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given:
"Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of
mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to
the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and
just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state;
and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my
injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be
wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty
to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be
righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful,
in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better
disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain."
The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, 1911 (About)A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given:
"Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of
mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to
the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and
just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state;
and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my
injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be
wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty
to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be
righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful,
in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better
disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain."
Noun
1. adhering to moral principles
(antonym) unrighteousness
(hypernym) morality
(hyponym) uprightness, rectitude
Righteousness Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Righteousness (also called rectitude) is an important theological concept in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism (dharma), and Zoroastrianism. 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 leading a life that is pleasing to God. William Tyndale remodelled the word after an earlier word rihtwis, which would have yielded modern English *rightwise or *rightways. He used it to translate the Hebrew root צדקים (TzDYQ), tzedek, which appears more than five hundred times in the Hebrew Bible, and the Greek word (dikaios), which appears more than two hundred times in the New Testament.
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