RIGHTEOUSNESS in a Sentence

Learn RIGHTEOUSNESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

21 example sentences for RIGHTEOUSNESS, such as:

1. I was obliged to stalk from the room in righteous fury.
2. They righteously maintain that they do not practise rationing.
3. She felt oozing through the walls the spirit of small houses and righteous people.
4. She was pink with righteous anger, her gentle eyes snapping fire, her nostrils quivering.
5. The righteous widow glared, banged into the house, came out poking at her bonnet, marched away.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIGHTEOUSNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
righteousness
 n.  adhering to moral principles
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The dearth of strong moral character, of unbending righteousness, he felt, was their great shortcoming, and here he would begin.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
2  He fought among his own, the low, the grasping, and the wicked, with that unbending righteousness which is the sword of the just.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
3  "Cold" Boston was alive with the fire that is always hot in her heart for righteousness and truth.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
4  She shared with all her heart in the prayer for the spirit of righteousness, for the strengthening of the heart by faith and hope, and its animation by love.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
5  But neither could she doubt the righteousness of the prayer that was being read on bended knees.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
6  One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  "I never thought to live long enough to hear such disloyal words spoken of our Cause," went on Mrs. Merriwether, by this time in a ferment of righteous anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  She was pink with righteous anger, her gentle eyes snapping fire, her nostrils quivering.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
9  Their rebuffs made her haughty; her haughtiness irritated them to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Bogart, son of the righteous widow who lived across the alley, was at this time a boy of fourteen or fifteen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  He hymned the old unhappy wars in which he had been Achilles and the mellifluous Nestor, yet gone his righteous ways unheeded by the cruel kings.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  The righteous widow glared, banged into the house, came out poking at her bonnet, marched away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  She felt oozing through the walls the spirit of small houses and righteous people.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  He had proceeded with wisdom and from the most righteous motives under heaven's blue only to be frustrated by hateful circumstances.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Yet midway my hope is, if righteous gods can do aught at all, thou wilt drain the cup of vengeance on the rocks, and re-echo calls on Dido's name.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
Example Sentence:
1  They righteously maintain that they do not practise rationing.
2  Noah was a righteous man, the one blameless man of his time; he walked with God.
3  I was obliged to stalk from the room in righteous fury.