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Well-behaved vs Righteous - What's the difference?

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Well-behaved is a related term of righteous.


As adjectives the difference between well-behaved and righteous

is that well-behaved is (of a person or animal) having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour; while righteous is free from sin or guilt.

As a verb righteous is

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

well-behaved

English

(wikipedia well-behaved)

Adjective

  • (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
  • :The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
  • (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
  • (mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities

    • Synonyms

    * well-mannered * seemly

    Antonyms

    * ill behaved * (mathematics) pathological

    righteous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • free from sin or guilt
  • moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
  • justified morally
  • (slang, US) awesome

    • Derived terms

    * righteousness * self-righteous

    Verb

    (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.