All 5 Uses of
righteous
in
Middlemarch
- I have been looking into a volume of sermons by Mr. Tyke: such sermons would be of no use at Lowick—I mean, about imputed righteousness and the prophecies in the Apocalypse.†
Chpt 5 *
- But for himself at that distant time, and even now in burning memory, the fact was broken into little sequences, each justified as it came by reasonings which seemed to prove it righteous.†
Chpt 6
- There were hours in which Bulstrode felt that his action was unrighteous; but how could he go back?†
Chpt 6
- I don't judge you and say, he is wicked, and I am righteous.†
Chpt 7
- Upright Sir James Chettam was convinced that his own satisfaction was righteous when he thought with some complacency that here was an added league to that mountainous distance between Ladislaw and Dorothea, which enabled him to dismiss any anxiety in that direction as too absurd.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(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-")