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单词 right-doing
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right-doingadj.

Brit. /ˈrʌɪtduːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraɪtˌduɪŋ/
Forms: Old English riht-donde, 1800s– right-doing.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right n., English doing , do v.
Etymology: < right n. + doing, present participle of do v. In later use after wrongdoing adj., rightdoing n.The word apparently became obsolete at the end of the Old English period and was re-formed in the 19th cent.
rare.
That does what is right or proper.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > [adjective]
righteOE
righteouseOE
right-doingOE
rightfullOE
justc1384
rekenc1400
justfulc1425
upright1530
right-up1539
right-minded1574
principled1697
well-minded1824
unwrongful1876
OE Blickling Homilies 51 Ealle ure eorþan wæstmas beoþ gebletsode, gif we beoþ riht donde.
OE Blickling Homilies 61 A seo duru þæs heofonlican rices biþ ontyned þæm rihtgelyfendum monnum & þæm riht dondum.
1873 M. M. Grant Bright Morning I. xiii. 248 ‘Boy, boy!’ he cried, ‘you are well-meaning; you are a right-doing fellow.’
1904 E. P. Oppenheim Betrayal (1907) xl. 331 A typical English gentleman, proud, sensitive of his honour, in every action which came before the world a right-dealing and a right-doing man.
2004 C. Seerveld Voicing God's Psalms (2005) viii. 128 When a tried-and-true right-doing person sharply corrects me, it is like covenantal grace.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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