All 5 Uses of
righteous
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- And ill....She is seeking righteousness, she is pure.†
Chpt 4.4 *righteousness = morally correct behavior
- She has such faith that there must be righteousness everywhere and she expects it....And if you were to torture her, she wouldn't do wrong.†
Chpt 4.4
- From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there will be nothing to protest against and all men will become righteous in one instant.†
Chpt 3.5
- She doesn't see that it's impossible for people to be righteous and she is angry at it.†
Chpt 4.4
- But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation.†
Chpt 6.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(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-") -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, righteous is used as a synonym for wonderful.