See by right in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Whiche praise, with the honour thereunto due, as inheritaunce discendeth by righte unto his most noble sonne, our moste dere soueraigne lorde that nowe presently raigneth. For, as Tulli [i.e., Marcus Tullius Cicero] saithe, the best inheritance that the fathers leue to their children, excellynge all other patrimonie, is the glorie or praise of vertue and noble actis.",
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"text": "A huſband and a ſon thou ovveſt to me, / And thou a kingdome, all of you allegeance: / The ſorrovv that I haue by right is yours, / And all the pleaſures you vſurpe are mine.",
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"text": "Ovve not all Creatures by juſt right to thee / Duty and Service, nor to ſtay till bid, / But tender all their povver?",
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"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.",
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"text": "And ſome [fowl], becauſe the light doth them offend, / Neuer appeare, but in the darke, or night. / Other reioyce, to ſe the fire ſo bright / And wene to play in it, as they pretend: / Alas, of that ſort may I be, by right. / For to withſtand her loke I am not able: / Yet can I not hide me in no dark place: […]",
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"text": "Whiche praise, with the honour thereunto due, as inheritaunce discendeth by righte unto his most noble sonne, our moste dere soueraigne lorde that nowe presently raigneth. For, as Tulli [i.e., Marcus Tullius Cicero] saithe, the best inheritance that the fathers leue to their children, excellynge all other patrimonie, is the glorie or praise of vertue and noble actis.",
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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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"According to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to; justly, properly, rightfully."
],
"links": [
[
"According to",
"according to"
],
[
"right",
"right#Adjective"
],
[
"legally",
"legally"
],
[
"morally",
"morally"
],
[
"entitle",
"entitle"
],
[
"justly",
"justly"
],
[
"properly",
"properly"
],
[
"rightfully",
"rightfully"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fairly"
},
{
"word": "in fairness"
},
{
"word": "in justice"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "a. 1543 (date written), [Thomas Wyatt], “How the Louer Perisheth in His Delight, as the Flie in the Fire”, in Songes and Sonettes, London: […] Richard Tottel, published 10 August 1557 (Gregorian calendar), →OCLC, folio 21, verso:",
"text": "And ſome [fowl], becauſe the light doth them offend, / Neuer appeare, but in the darke, or night. / Other reioyce, to ſe the fire ſo bright / And wene to play in it, as they pretend: / Alas, of that ſort may I be, by right. / For to withſtand her loke I am not able: / Yet can I not hide me in no dark place: […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In reality; correctly, to tell the truth, truthfully."
],
"links": [
[
"reality",
"reality"
],
[
"correctly",
"correctly"
],
[
"to tell the truth",
"to tell the truth"
],
[
"truthfully",
"truthfully"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) In reality; correctly, to tell the truth, truthfully."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "actually"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/baɪ ˈɹaɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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{
"rhymes": "-aɪt"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "according to what is right",
"word": "by rights"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "iravamb",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "իրավամբ"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"english": "gai³ zing³, gai³ zeng³",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "計正 /计正"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "rechtens"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "rajte"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "oikeasti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "oikeutetusti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "de droit"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "en toute justice"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "légalement"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "légitimement"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "zu Recht"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "rechtens"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "verdientermaßen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dikaiomatiká",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "δικαιωματικά"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "di diritto"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "po právo",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "по пра́во"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "so právo",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "со пра́во"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "egentlig"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "eigentleg"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "zgodnie z prawem"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "po právu",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "по пра́ву"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "en justicia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "rätteligen"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "rättmätigen"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "rättmätigt"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "tillbörligen"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "according to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to — see also rightfully",
"word": "gydag iawn"
}
],
"word": "by right"
}
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