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rightship en · NOUN

Etymology

From right + -ship.

Meanings

  1. (dialectal, rare, uncountable) The quality of being right, just, or reasonable; justice, truth; dependence, trustworthiness; reasonableness.
    • Of course, this was very disturbing, so the services of a 'white witch' were sought, and 'he mumbled a lot of stuff what nobody could make any rightship of, and weeshed (wished) him back to the Pit again.' 2005, Douglas Walthew Rice, The Life and Achievements of Sir John Popham, 1531-1607:
    • He spoke with firm conviction, as if the rightship of this to any English understanding must be beyond doubt. 1899, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, The Idler Magazine, volume 15, page 53:
    • There's no rightship in so much fighting over nothing but what's fair. 1899, Walter Raymond, Two men O' Mendip:
    • Othertimes the rightship o't not zo plain: the path do varky, an' 'tes a hardish job to zee which vark to volly. 1916, John Read, Latter-Lammas, page 89: