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单词 rightify
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rightifyv.

Brit. /ˈrʌɪtᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈraɪdəˌfaɪ/, Scottish English /ˈrʌitᵻfaɪ/, Irish English /ˈraɪtəfaɪ/, Canadian English /ˈrəidəˌfai/
Forms: see right adj. and -ify suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: right adj., -ify suffix.
Etymology: < right adj. + -ify suffix. Compare rectify v.
Irish English, Scottish, and Newfoundland.
transitive. To do right by, or do justice to (a person); to set right or rectify (something).
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1725 Dublin Weekly Jrnl. 21 Aug. 84/1 From Berlin, that the King..has resolv'd to augment his Troops with 7000 Men, which shews he has a Design to rightify the Protestants in Poland.
1763 J. Greenwood in Franklin Papers (1966) x. 246 As I am much reduced and have a large family have made bold to Beg the Assistance of soe good a Gentleman to see me rightified.
1827 Times 18 Sept. 3/2 He told me to lay my head down and go to sleep, and he would see all rightified.
1866 P. Kennedy Legendary Fictions Irish Celts 156 Tell my son to saddle two of his best horses for himself and yourself, and keep riding day and night, till every man and woman we ever wronged be rightified.
1932 J. White Moss Road i. 7 It's a thing that'll be richtified between you an' Betsy Brander in the hinder end.
1961 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1999) (online ed.) (at cited word) Make a mistake..rightify it.
2004 J. H. Harlow Thunder from Sea xxvi. 208 We're trying to rightify things, Thunder. We don't want you to be taken away from Tom.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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