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Word Meanings - PRETENDERSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • CHARACTERISM
    A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
  • PRETENDER
    The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • SWIFTNESS
    The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
  • RIGHTEOUS
    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. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
  • SWIFTLET
    Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
  • SWIFTER
    A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
  • RIGHTEN
    To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
  • RIGHT-LINED
    Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
  • RIGHT-MINDED
    Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • CLAIMABLE
    Capable of being claimed.
  • RIGHT-HANDED
    Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
  • RIGHT-HEARTED
    Having a right heart or disposition. -- Right"-heart`ed*ness, n.
  • RIGHTEOUSLY
    In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
  • RIGHTNESS
    Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. Bacon. 2. The quality or state of being right; right relation. The craving for rightness with God. J. C. Shairp.
  • SWIFTLY
    In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • RECLAIMABLE
    That may be reclaimed.
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • RECLAIMER
    One who reclaims.
  • ACCLAIM
    1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
  • SHRIGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • OVERRIGHTEOUS
    Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
  • AFFRIGHTER
    One who frightens.
  • EMBRIGHT
    To brighten.
  • WRIGHT
    One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
  • SELF-RIGHTEOUS
    Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.

 

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