Both Uses of
righteous
in
Wuthering Heights
- We thought a bolt had fallen in the middle of us; and Joseph swung on to his knees, beseeching the Lord to remember the patriarchs Noah and Lot, and, as in former times, spare the righteous, though he smote the ungodly.†
Chpt 9
- One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
-
(righteous as in: a righteous cause) morally correct; or morally justified
or:
acting or feeling morally superior -- especially when it isn't true (this meaning is more typically seen as a compound word beginning with "self-")