rightwise
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪtwaɪz/ / /ˈɹaɪtˌwaɪz/
adj
Etymology: From right + -wise.
- Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.
“[…] 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.”
- Clockwise, moving clockwise.
“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.”
adv
Etymology: From right + -wise.
- By a rightward path; rightwards, rightwardly; clockwise (in a clockwise manner).
“and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.”
“Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English rightwise, rightwis, from Old English rihtwīs (“righteous, just; right, justifiable”), corresponding to right + -wise. The second element was later confused with or assimilated to -ous, leading to the modern spelling righteous.
- Archaic spelling of righteous (“make righteous; justify religiously, absolve from sin”).
“God's righteousness is what it must be as the power which rightwises the sinner, namely, God's victory over against the rebellion of the world.”
“[…] God's righteousness is shown in the rightwising of sinners.”