Meaning of rightwise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Obsolete spelling of righteous .
   alt-of, obsolete
2. Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.
   rare
3. Clockwise, moving clockwise.
   rare

Examples

“I came not to call the rightwise, but the synners to repentaunce.”

“And Plato sayeth that it is extreme iniustice he to seme rightwise which in dede is uniuste.”

“Man feels maddened by his pent-uppness, & woman seems to understand that a rightwise man's cruel-fain-th is part of his hunger for women.”

“[…] that, abutting against the end of H, or nearly so, it will lock said bar as against a return or rightwise motion, and then said bar will be locked as against a reverse motion, and, being locked, its flop D cannot be rotated back, […]”

“The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.”

“In Tibet the compass points are described in a rightwise circle; one speaks there of east-south and west-north instead of south-east and north-west.”

“Then he stepped before me, and I bade him walk three times in a rightwise circle around me. "This is embarrassing," he growled through clenched teeth as he passed the first time.”

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