Righteous vs Unrightwise - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between righteous and unrightwise

is that righteous is free from sin or guilt while unrightwise is (obsolete) not righteous.

is to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

* (l), (l)

(en adjective)

free from sin or guilt

moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious

justified morally

(slang, US) awesome

* righteousness * self-righteous

(es)

To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:

Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.