unright

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From Middle English unright, unrighte, from Old English unrihte (“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”), equivalent to un- + right.

Wrongly.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English unright, unriȝt, unriht, from Old English unriht (“wrong, sin, vice, wickedness, evil, injustice, oppression, a wrong act”), equivalent to un- (“absence of”) + right. Cognate with Scots unricht (“wrongdoing, injustice”), Dutch onrecht (“injustice, inequity, wrong”), German Unrecht (“injustice”), Swedish orätt (“injustice, wrong, sin”).

That which is not right; wrong; injustice.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English unrighten, from unright (“unright”, adj.).

To make wrong.