Both Uses
righteous
in
The Fountainhead
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- He felt that he must have progressed far upon the path of righteousness if he had been able to teach a point of virtue to his teacher.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- It was a sensational scandal, and there was the usual noise and the usual lust of righteous anger, such as is proper to all lynchings.†
Chpt 4.13
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 "self-righteous") -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) wonderful