English Explanatory Dictionary

rightwise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Obsolete spelling of righteous .
verb
  1. Archaic spelling of righteous (“make righteous; justify religiously, absolve from sin”).
adv
  1. Rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.
adv
  1. By a rightward path; rightwards, rightwardly; clockwise (in a clockwise manner).
adj
  1. Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.
  2. Clockwise, moving clockwise.

Pronunciation

rītʹwīz /ˈɹaɪtwaɪz/ rītʹwīz' /ˈɹaɪtˌwaɪz/

Word forms

rightwise more rightwise most rightwise rightwises rightwising rightwised

Etymology

From Middle English rightwise, rightwis, from Old English rihtwīs (“righteous, just; right, justifiable”), corresponding to right + -wise. The second element was later confused with or assimilated to -ous, leading to the modern spelling righteous.

Related words

rightways rightwiseness leftwise
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