Rightfully vs Deservedly - What's the difference?
rightfully | deservedly | 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:
(degree, manner) In a way or to a degree that is deserved or merited.
* 1847-48 , , 2008, Digireads.com Publishing,
* 1859 , James Maden Holt, The Jesuits: A Lecture Delivered in St. Saviour's School, near Bacup, May 16th 1859 ,
* 1986 , Facts on File, Editorials on File , Volume 17, Part 2, ,
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
As adverbs the difference between rightfully and deservedly
is that rightfully is in accordance with what is right or just; fairly while deservedly is in a way or to a degree that is deserved or merited.rightfully
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Adverb
(en adverb)- Ne euer will it breake, ne euer bend. / Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.
deservedly
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Adverb
(en adverb)page 437,
- Emmy, he remembered, was at one time cruelly and deservedly jealous of Rebecca,.
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- THE Jesuits have been condemned, and deservedly condemned, by the unanimous consent of the whole of Christendom.
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- The vote for Scalia was unanimous, and deservedly so.
- Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.