All 5 Uses of
righteous
in
Not Without My Daughter
- Moody, in his Islamic righteousness of the previous months, had complained about Essey's laxity in covering herself and had pointed to Nasserine as a paragon of virtue.†
*righteousness = morally correct behavior
- Oh sister of Aaron; your father was not unrighteous nor was your mother unchaste.†
unrighteous = morally wrongstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrighteous means not and reverses the meaning of righteous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- With a sense of righteous indignation I realized that, ironically, Allah was on my side.†
- Thus the righteous women will accept this arrangement obediently, and will honor their husbands in their absence, in accordance with God's commandments.†
- His eyes glaring with the righteous menace of a Moslem man crossed by a woman, he grabbed me, one hand digging into my arm, the other pulling at my hair.†
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, righteous is used as a synonym for wonderful.