Both Uses
righteous
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Sweet Far Thing
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- I was shamed by their choice, and my rage became my righteousness.†
Chpt 3 *
- Please help me, I pray, even though I don't believe in a white-bearded God who delivers justice to the unrighteous and mercy to the deserving.†
Chpt 4unrighteous = 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.
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