"by rights" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

IPA: /baɪ ˈɹaits/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-by rights.ogg
Rhymes: -aɪts Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} by rights, {{en-prep phrase}} by rights
  1. Alternative form of by right Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: by right
    Sense id: en-by_rights-en-prep_phrase-BFUB19SB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1863 October 24, Charles Dickens, “Titbull’s Alms-houses”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, new edition, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 192, column 2:",
          "text": "Well, whether the gentlemen really do deprive us of any little matters which ought to be ours by rights, I cannot say for certain; but the opinion of the old ones is they do.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1884, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter VII, in Dawn […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 101:",
          "text": "He told me not to tell anyone. I suppose that I should not by rights have told you.",
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          "ref": "2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), Los Angeles, Calif.: Paramount Vantage; Miramax Films, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The rest will be speculators, that's men trying to get between you and the oilmen to get some of the money that ought, by rights, come to you.",
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          "ref": "2011 February 21, Eilidh Nisbet, “February 1951”, in Giddy Old School: The Diary of a Swot 1948 to 1951, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 268:",
          "text": "By rights I ought to have been lolling in bed this morning, but Nancy was ill and I had to goalkeep for the Second.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "You Keep Fucking Me is one of the highlights of a new exhibition of her paintings, all of them created since her diagnosis with a cancer that should, by rights, have seen her off.",
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          "text": "By rights I ought to have been lolling in bed this morning, but Nancy was ill and I had to goalkeep for the Second.",
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