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Unright
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unright
unright
English
Noun
unright (usually uncountable, plural unrights)
Etymology 2
From Middle English unrighten, from unright (“unright”, adj.).
Verb
unright (third-person singular simple present unrights, present participle unrighting, simple past and past participle unrighted)
- (transitive) To make wrong.
Etymology 3
From Middle English, from Old English unriht (“wrong, unrighteous, wicked, false, unlawful”), from Proto-Germanic *unrehtaz (“unright”), equivalent to un- + right. Cognate with Scots unricht (“unfair, unjust”), Dutch onrecht (“wrong”), German unrecht (“wrong”), Swedish orätt (“wrong”).
Adjective
unright (comparative more unright, superlative most unright)
- Not right; unrighteous; unjust; wrong.
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Etymology 4
From Middle English, from Old English unrihte (“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”), equivalent to un- + right.
Adverb
unright (comparative more unright, superlative most unright)
- (archaic or obsolete) Wrongly.