Righteous vs Equity - What's the difference?
righteous | equity |
free from sin or guilt
moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
justified morally
(slang, US) awesome
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
value of some business.
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, title= (legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
* Macaulay
(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).
(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.
* Kent
(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).
Justice, impartiality or fairness.
* Tillotson
As an adjective righteous
is free from sin or guilt.As a verb righteous
is to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.As a noun equity is
value of some business.righteous
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* righteousness * self-righteousVerb
(es)- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
equity
English
(wikipedia equity)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
- an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.
- I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
- Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .