Usually means: Adherence to moral and ethical principles.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. righteousness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. righteousness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. righteousness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. righteousness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Righteousness, righteousness: Wordnik
  6. righteousness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. righteousness: Wiktionary
  8. righteousness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. righteousness: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Righteousness, righteousness: Dictionary.com
  11. Righteousness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Righteousness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. righteousness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. righteousness: Rhymezone
  15. Righteousness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. righteousness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. righteousness: Free Dictionary
  18. righteousness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. righteousness: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. righteousness: Legal dictionary

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  1. Righteousness: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Righteousness: Easton Bible
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Righteousness: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See righteous as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (righteousness)

noun:  (uncountable) The quality or state of being righteous.
noun:  (uncountable, theology) Holiness; conformity of life to the divine law.
noun:  (countable, now rare) A righteous act or quality.
noun:  The behaviour of someone who is righteous.
noun:  (theology) The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification.

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