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rightmaking

rightmaking adjective: that contributes to making a decision or action morally right.

Adjective

rightmaking (not comparable)

  1. That contributes to making a decision or action morally right.
    • Judged from a purely a priori point of view, the likelihood that there is a rightmaking property with a moral weight whose absolute value is equal to M that is relevant to the moral status of the action in question, is no greater than the likelihood that there is a wrongmaking property whose...2009, Alvin Plantinga, Michael Tooley, Knowledge of God (page 128)
    Antonyms:
    wrongmaking

Antonyms of rightmaking

Origin of rightmaking

right + making

Questions about rightmaking

What does rightmaking mean?
Rightmaking means that contributes to making a decision or action morally right.
What part of speech is rightmaking?
Rightmaking is an adjective.

Words near rightmaking in the dictionary

  1. rightlier
  2. rightliest
  3. rightly
  4. rightly or wrongly
  5. rightly so
  6. rightmaking
  7. rightminded
  8. rightmindedly
  9. rightmindedness
  10. rightmost
  11. rightness

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