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Aright vs Adight - What's the difference?

aright | adight |

As verbs the difference between aright and adight

is that aright is to make right; put right; arrange or treat properly while adight is (archaic) to set in order; to array.

As an adverb aright

is rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.

aright

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
  • *, I.56:
    • it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) arighten, .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
  • * 2003 , John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy :
    • But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.
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    adight

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To set in order; to array.

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