Rightfully vs Rightful - What's the difference?
rightfully | rightful |
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:
By right, by law.
As an adverb rightfully
is in accordance with what is right or just; fairly.As an adjective rightful is
by right, by law.rightfully
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Ne euer will it breake, ne euer bend. / Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.
rightful
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Adjective
(head)- Who shall pull this sword from the stone is rightful king of England. (w)