Now rare. [f. UNRIGHTFUL a.] The quality of being unrightful.

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a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 1742. Ic nolde þat vnrihtfulnesse Me at þen ende ouercome.

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a. 1325.  Prose Psalter, vii. 15. Lo, þe sinner doþ vnryȝt-fulnesse.

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1382.  Wyclif, John vii. 18. This is sothfast, and vnriȝtfulnesse is not in him.

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c. 1450[?].  in Roy, Rede me, etc. (Arb.), 183. The wrathe of god is shewyd … vpon cruelnes and vnryghtfulnes of these men.

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a. 1470.  H. Parker, Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), II. xvii. 128/1. Periury is cause … of all unrightfulnesse.

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1821.  T. Jefferson, Autobiog., Writ. 1892, I. 62. The unrightfulness and inefficacy of the punishment of crimes by death.

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