| NOUN | attribute | righteousness | adhering to moral principles |
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| Sounds | ray'chahsnahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | adhering to moral principles. | |
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| Narrower | honesty, honestness | The quality of being honest |
| honor, honour | The quality of being honorable and having a good name | |
| honorableness, honourableness | The quality of deserving honor or respect | |
| impeccability | The quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning | |
| justice, justness | The quality of being just or fair | |
| piety, piousness | righteousness by virtue of being pious | |
| uprightness, rectitude | righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | |
| Broader | morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong |
| Opposite | unrighteousness | failure to adhere to moral principles |
| Spanish | rectitud | |
| Catalan | rectitud | |
| Adjectives | righteous | characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice |
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