Rightwise vs X - What's the difference?
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* 1525? , William Tyndale, (Tyndale Bible)
* 1531 , Sir Thomas Elyot, The Boke named The Governour: Book III
* 2006 , Percy Grainger, edited by Malcolm Gillies, David Pear and Mark Carroll, Self-portrait of Percy Grainger , page 167:
(rare) Rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.
* 1915 , Howard Pyle, The story of King Arthur and his knights (page 36)
* 1969 , in Topic , issues 17-18, page 37:
* 2003 , Nancy McKenzie, Grail Prince , page 192:
(rare) By a (l) path; rightwards, rightwardly; (l) (in a clockwise manner).
* 1890 , G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English :
* 2004 , Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods , page 336:
(rare) Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.
* 1866 , Specifications and drawings of patents relating to electricity issued by the United States from July 1, 1884, to July 1, 1885 , volume 39, published by the United States Patent Office:
* 2006 , Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands , page 151:
(rare) Clockwise, moving clockwise.
* 1966 , P. H. Pott, Yoga and yantra: their interrelation and their significance for Indian archeology , page 66:
* 2006 , Steve Lawhead, The Silver Hand , page 20:
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As an adjective rightwise
is or rightwise can be (rare) rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.As an adverb rightwise
is (rare) rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully or rightwise can be (rare) by a (l) path; rightwards, rightwardly; (l) (in a clockwise manner).As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.rightwise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rightwise, rightwis, from (etyl) . The second element was later confused with or assimilated to (-ous), leading to the modern spelling righteous.{{quote-book, year=1905, year_published=2007', edition=Reprint, editor=, author=Richard Chenevix Trench, title=English Past and Present, chapter=rightwise', remains, but its correspondent 'wrongwiseness' has been taken;'>citation }}
Adjective
(en adjective)- I came not to call the rightwise but the synners to repentaunce.
- And Plato sayeth that it is extreme iniustice he to seme rightwise which in dede is uniuste.
- Man feels maddened by his pent-uppness, & woman seems to understand that a rightwise man's cruel-fain-th is part of his hunger for women.
References
Etymology 2
Presumably from (etyl) .Adverb
(-)- And, after that fourth trial, sundry of the kings and many of the lesser barons and knights and all of the commons cried out that these were trials enough, and that Arthur had assuredly approved himself to be rightwise King
- "That it was Maximus's sword which Merlin found for Arthur and fixed in the stone of Lludyn's Hill by magic arts so that none but he who was rightwise born King of all the Britons could pull it out."
Etymology 3
Adverb
(-)- and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.
- Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.
References
* “rightwise, adv.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary], second edition (1989) * “
rightwise, adv.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , third edition (June 2010)
Adjective
- The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise .
- In Tibet the compass points are described in a rightwise circle; one speaks there of east-south and west-north instead of south-east and north-west.
- Then he stepped before me, and I bade him walk three times in a rightwise circle around me. "This is embarrassing," he growled through clenched teeth as he passed the first time.