The rightfulness of his claim.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Faith in the justice and the rightfulness of our world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Faith For the Free] Reference

Many of you sincerely believed in the rightfulness of his cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

The rightfulness of those conditions is not here the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

If we had ever had a doubt of the rightfulness of the course which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

An alien does not recognize the rightfulness of a government by living under it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

Do I acknowledge the rightfulness of his relation to B. and C. by asking C. to use the power given him, in my behalf?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

She accepted, in short, as morally indisputable, the rightfulness of herself being punished if she should fail to be pleasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magicians of Gor]

A man's oath expresses his conviction of the rightfulness of the actions he promises to do, as well as his determination to do them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

Still, can there be no calm and considerate discussion of the rightfulness or sinfulness of the laws which define and regulate slavery?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference

It would be a recognition of the validity, if not of the rightfulness of the movement which assumed to carry the State out of the Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

When did any sane man conclude that our Saviour's voluntary payment of a tax acknowledged the rightfulness of Rome's authority over Judea?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

Stoics, the moral rightfulness of "defending on some occasions a guilty man, if he be not utterly depraved and false to all human relations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference

Now we are in a struggle for life or death and we mean to carry it through with full confidence in the rightfulness of our cause and in the force of our arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference

I hope there will be rightfulness in our next elections, I hope that Iraq finds and elects the honest person who cares about his people and his country first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq: BlogIraq is Dead] Reference

Having disposed of your reasons in favor of the rightfulness of the relation of slaveholder and slave, I will offer a few reasons for believing that it is not rightful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference

This brings up the whole question of the rightfulness of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5] Reference

It was not a mere challenge of the policy or rightfulness of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

It is idle to make the rightfulness of an act the measure of sovereign power.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896)] Reference

In the next his conscience would question the rightfulness of the conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana] Reference

The bystanders seemed to acquiesce in the justness and rightfulness of the action.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

I will show the injustice which they suffer and the rightfulness of their resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference

Others conceded the rightfulness of subsidies to States even for bettering inland routes.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)] Reference

Nothing was too sacred for her to question, as to its rightfulness in principle and practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

Whatever the law may say, the rightfulness of prison authority is never admitted by prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference

In proportion to the rightfulness of the commandment is the wrongfulness of disobeying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan] Reference

The whole relationship must not only demonstrate, to his mind, its necessity, but its absolute rightfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference

They disputed the rightfulness of the Stamp Act. When we refused to submit to the Stamp Tax in 1766, it was then that.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

Mr. Berrien of Georgia made an exhaustive speech, inquiring into the rightfulness of title, and urged the line of 49°.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

But that means a win in the Champions League, because great wins reinforce certainties and give rightfulness to a culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

Reducing our destiny from endless to definite cannot alter the inherent rightfulness and superiority of the claims of virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

One may say with all simplicity, that the question has, of course, as much rightfulness as has any other question any man could raise.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference

In Kentucky perhaps, in many of the slave States certainly, you are trying to establish the rightfulness of slavery by reference to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862] Reference

He stood alone, as it were, in its condemnation; with here and there an exception, all Christendom maintained the rightfulness of slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

In Kentucky perhaps -- in many of the slave States certainly -- you are trying to establish the rightfulness of slavery by reference to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865] Reference