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Home Dictionary Name: righteousRighteous
Doing or according with that which is right yielding to all their due just equitable especially free from wrong guilt or sin holy as a righteous man or act a righteous retribution...
Righteously
In a righteous manner as to judge righteously...
Righteoused
Made righteous...
Righteousness
The quality or state of being righteous holiness purity uprightness rectitude...
Self righteous
Righteous in ones own esteem pharisaic...
Self righteousness
The quality or state of being self righteous pharisaism...
Dharma
Dharma, dharma embraces every type of righteous conduct covering every aspect of life essential for the sustenance and welfare of the individual and the society and includes those rules which guide and enable those who believe in God and heaven to attain moksha (eternal bliss). Rules of dharma are meant to regulate the individual conduct, in such a way as to restrict the rights, liberty, interest and desires of an, individual as regards all matters to the extent necessary in the interest of other individuals, i.e., the society and at the same time making it obligatory for the society to safeguard and protect the individual in all respects through its social and political institutions. Shortly put, dharma regulates the mutual obligations of individual and the society. Therefore, it was stressed that protection of dharma was in the interest of both the individual and the society, A 'state of dharma' was required to be always maintained for peaceful coexistence and prosperity of all.Thoug...
right
right [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b : something that is morally just [able to distinguish from wrong] 2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : a power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession [the of liberty] [that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable s "Declaration of Independence"] see also natural right b : a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law [one's constitutional s] c : a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act [the defendant may be under a legal duty…to exercise reasonable care for the plaintiff's safety, so that the plaintiff has a corresponding legal to insist on that care "W. L. Prosser and W. P. K...
Ghost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians participated in by both sexes and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is through trance and vision to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost dance or Messiah religion which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka the Indian Messiah who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race the dead with the living should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth The religion inculcates peace righteousness and work and holds that in good time without warlike intervention the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States only in the case of the Sioux owing to local causes leading to an outbreak...
Godlily
Righteously...
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