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righteoused

righteoused is the simple past and past participle of righteous.

Meaning of righteous

Verb

righteous (third-person singular simple present righteouses, present participle righteousing, simple past and past participle righteoused)

  1. To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
    • Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 101

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Questions about righteoused

What is righteoused the simple past and past participle of?
Righteoused is the simple past and past participle of righteous.

Words near righteoused in the dictionary

  1. rightening
  2. rightens
  3. righteo
  4. righteous
  5. Righteous Among the Nations
  6. righteoused
  7. righteouses
  8. righteousing
  9. righteously
  10. righteousness
  11. righteousnesse

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