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单词 right-thinker
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right-thinkern.

Brit. /ˌrʌɪtˈθɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˌraɪtˈθɪŋkər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adv., right n., thinker n.
Etymology: < either right adv. or right n. + thinker n., probably after right-thinking adj.
A person regarded as holding morally sound or socially acceptable views and principles.
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society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > person
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1724 Briton No. 22. 94 Until we are blest with a Nation of Right Thinkers, these Trifles will..be consider'd by many, as Things really and substantially valuable.
1735 Prompter 14 Oct. 2/1 Exterior Things do not convey to the Right Thinker either Happiness, or Misery, and only assume the Power of either, as Reason more or less guides and influences.
1809 Christian Observer May 306/2 With Dr. Paley, as with all right thinkers on the subject, a religion of grace is in fact a religion of prayer.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xxv. 231 Against slavery all right thinkers revolt.
1864 E. Sargent Transition xxxv. 344 Who are the wicked? Why, water-drinkers! The deluge proves it to all right thinkers.
1931 A. Huxley Music at Night 172 Granted the preliminary assumption that concupiscence is wicked, right-thinkers are justified in specially discriminating against the representations of this sin.
1998 San Francisco Chron. 5 Aug. a18/4 Why not just spread lung cancer among all these plebeians who voted for Clinton; then we ‘right-thinkers’ can control everything and everyone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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