All 15 Uses of
righteous
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness.†
Chpt 2righteousness = morally correct behavior
- After all, even when everyone defecates righteously, there are villages upstream from us.†
Chpt 2righteously = in a morally correct manner
- Those of doubtful righteousness speak of cannibals, the unquestionably vile, the sinners and the damned.†
Chpt 2righteousness = morally correct behavior
- Nathan believed one thing above all else: that the Lord notices righteousness, and rewards it.†
Chpt 3
- Bravery and righteousness--those are two things that cannot go unrewarded in the sight of the Lord.
Chpt 3 *
- What do a girl's bravery and righteousness count for, unless she is also pretty?†
Chpt 3
- Naturally the righteous Susanna refused them, even though this meant she would be accused and stoned for adultery.†
Chpt 1
- "There will always be room for the righteous," he said.†
Chpt 1
- Many are the afflictions of the righteous, and the Lord delivers him out of them all.†
Chpt 1
- Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all, he declared to the sky, squinting up at God and demanding justice.†
Chpt 2
- He says we're being brave and righteous.†
Chpt 3
- Smart and righteous and adequate to His will," I confessed.†
Chpt 3
- I want to be righteous, Anatole.†
Chpt 3
- My father came only once, with blue flames curling from his eyebrows and tongue: Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.†
Chpt 5
- Africa has slipped the floor out from under my righteous house, my Adah moral code.†
Chpt 5
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.