Word Meanings - RIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.

Related words: (words related to RIGHTEN)

• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• RELIEVEMENT
  The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
• JUSTICEHOOD
  Justiceship. B. Jonson.
• JUSTICEMENT
  Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. Johnson.
• JUSTICER
  One who administers justice; a judge. "Some upright justicer." Shak.
• JUSTICEABLE
  Liable to trial in a court of justice. Hayward.
• RELIEVE
  discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Piers Plowman. 2. To cause to seem to rise;
• JUSTICE
  1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each
• RELIEVER
  One who, or that which, relieves.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• INTROPRESSION
  Pressure acting within.
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• CHIEF-JUSTICESHIP
  The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.
• UNJUSTICE
  Want of justice; injustice. Hales.