rihtnes

Old English

Alternative forms

  • rihtnis

Etymology

From riht + -nes.

Noun

rihtnes f (nominative plural rihtnessa)

  1. rightness, straightness, perpendicularity.
  2. rightness, justice, equity.
  3. ratio.

Declension

References

  • rihtnes in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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