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rightfully Synonyms

rightfully

modif.

lawfully, legally, legitimately, justly, fairly, properly, truly, equitably, honestly, impartially, fittingly, in all conscience, as is fitting, in equity, by right, by rights, in reason, dispassionately, objectively, according to one's due, fair and square*, on the level*; see also legally 1.

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I will speak to Sasha to determine what it is he stole, and if it is rightfully owned by the Dark One, which it must be in order for you to reclaim it.
"If she is your mate, the kingdom is rightfully yours," Memon said.
Any one introspectively apprehending the facts must grant, he thought, that benevolence was an integral part of human nature and that conscience was rightfully supreme.
This task had been imposed on Jason by his uncle Pelias, who had usurped the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly, which rightfully belonged to Jason's father Aeson.
Thus Cardinal HergenrOther holds that it was written by a Frank in the 9th century, in order to prove that the Greeks had been rightfully expelled from Italy and that Charlemagne was legitimate emperor.

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