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adverb

Rightly adv.

Straightly; directly; in front. (Obs.)

According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately. "Eve rightly called, Mother of all mankind."

According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly. "I can not rightly say." "Thou didst not rightly see."

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... South during that time in order that she might escape the perils of their native climate. She was of vigorous constitution but of slight build, and he dreaded lest the inherited scourge should take an ineradicable hold upon her system. She had passed her school-girl life with safety; but he rightly judged that a few years in the genial climate where she then was would do very much toward enabling her to resist ...

— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee

... him, Albert took the verses into the house and read them, and gave them to Katy. The first stanza was, if I remember it rightly, ...

— The Mystery of Metropolisville • Edward Eggleston

... sure," exclaims the Judge, in great haste; alarmed into speedy assent by the construction which he perceives would be put upon a denial. "I remember it very distinctly. I remember putting it into your head—by the tumblerful, if I remember rightly." ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 • Various

... species by himself once ranked him among the greatest of human philosophers; even he now wanders through his palace unserved, and fawns upon the plebeian who will sell him a measure of wretched bran! Oh, admired friend, oh, rightly reasoning Thascius, say, is there anything in Rome which should delay thee on thy journey ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... Played rightly, however, Petruchio becomes not a brawler, not a kind of damn-my-eyes bully and braggart, but a practical idealist, a man who, happening by chance upon a creature of stupendous undirected power, sets himself to the direction of that ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

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