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By Rights

Definition: By Rights

By Rights

Adverb

1. With reason or justice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: By Rights

Synonym: properly (adv). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: By Rights

DomainUsage

Screenplays

By rights we shouldn't even be here (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: By Rights

Language Translations for "by rights"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me të drejtë (properly, with reason). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بحق (deservedly, rightly, with justification, with reason). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

по права. (various references)

   

Czech

  

správnì (all right, aright, correctly, duly, precisely, properly, right, rightly). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

oikeutta myöten (in justice). (various references)

   

French

  

bonne justice, en toute justice. (various references)

   

German

  

von Rechts wegen (by law). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לפי "צ"ק ו"יושר. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jogosan (by right, deservedly, justly, right, rightfully), jog szerint (by right, de jure). (various references)

   

Manx

  

liorish cairys, ayns cairys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ybay ightsray.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

по праву (de jure, justifiably, rightfully). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

po pravilniku (right: by rights). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

en justicia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

i kraft. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

справедливо (impartially, justly, right, rightfully, rightly, upright), по праву (rightfully). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: By Rights

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: brights.

-2 letters: bights, births, bright, girths, griths, hybris, rights, righty, shirty, thyrsi, yirths.

-3 letters: bight, birth, bitsy, brigs, brits, girsh, girth, girts, grist, grith, grits, right, shirt, sight, trigs, yirth.

-4 letters: bigs, bits, brig, bris, brit, ghis, gibs, girt, gist, gits, grit, gyri, hist, hits, ribs, rigs, shri, sigh, sith, stir, thir, this, trig.

 Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-r-s-t-y"
 

+2 letters: eyebrights.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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