英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 rightwisly, from 古期英語 rihtwīslīce; equivalent to righteous +‎ -ly.

副詞

righteously (comparative more righteously, superlative most righteously)

1. In a righteous manner.

   Synonyms: morally, rightly, right-mindedly; see also Thesaurus:virtuously

   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], “chapter 17”, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them. But you’ll not want to hear my 'moralising, Mr. Lockwood; you’ll judge, as well as I can, all these things:

   • 1920 [1919 September 11], Frederick E. Schortemeier, “Safeguarding America”, in Rededicating America: Life and Recent Speeches of Warren G. Harding‎, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 79‎:

     We uttered our chagrin that the spokesmen for the American conscience—aye, for the "conscience of civilization"—had sanctioned the confessed immorality of the Shantung award to satisfy a secret covenant against which we righteously proclaimed, and we did all we can do to right the wrong.

   • 2024 April 16, David A. Graham, “Trump’s Alternate-Reality Criminal Trial”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 17 April 2024:

     Even if Trump isn’t righteously jousting with the judge and being persecuted by the Soros machine, he can tell his base that he is. Even better, he can talk a good game without doing things that might risk judicial sanctions.

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