Righteous vs First-rate - What's the difference?
righteous | first-rate | Related terms |
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:
(military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks
(military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
(by extension) Exceptionally good.
* (Matthew Arnold)
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, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
Righteous is a related term of first-rate.
As adjectives the difference between righteous and first-rate
is that righteous is free from sin or guilt while first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) describing a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.As a verb righteous
is to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.As a noun first-rate is
(military|nautical|historical) a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.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.
first-rate
English
(wikipedia first-rate)Noun
Adjective
- Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.