Rightfully vs Appropriately - What's the difference?
rightfully | appropriately | Related terms |
In accordance with what is right or just; fairly.
* The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. -- John Stuart Mill
Rightly, correctly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
Rightfully is a related term of appropriately.
As adverbs the difference between rightfully and appropriately
is that rightfully is in accordance with what is right or just; fairly while appropriately is in an appropriate manner; properly; suitably.rightfully
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Ne euer will it breake, ne euer bend. / Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.