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righten, v. rare.|ˈraɪt(ə)n|
[f. right a. + -en5. Cf. ON. rétina to become straight.]
trans. To put or set right, in various senses.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxiv. 5 Righten me in þi sothfastnes, and lere me.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 368 For I shall see the day, when the Lord shall..righten my wrongs, [and] finish my sorrowes. 1611Bible Isa. i. 17 Learne to doe well, seeke iudgement, relieue [marg. Or, righten] the oppressed. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 32 A long silver bodkin, wherewith she used to righten her haire.
1852M. Arnold Empedocles i. ii. 320 How our own minds are made,..How righten'd, how betray'd. 1871B. Taylor Faust ii. iii. (1875) II. 136 Thy stubborn mind will not be rightened.
absol.1887H. S. Holland Christ or Eccles. (1888) 96 God..would put out His strength to correct, to righten, to redeem.
Hence ˈrightening vbl. n.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 174 For the rightning of all which there is nothing in the world to be brought forth but this. 1869Eadie Galatians 231 The whole of that rightening which a sinner needs and through faith enjoys. |