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right-down, adv. and a.
Also right down, rightdown.
[f. right adv. + down adv. Cf. downright.]
A. adv.
†1. With verbs: Positively; without any limitation or reserve; right out. Obs.
1644J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumph. 81 This being so, Mr. Prynnes comparison or parallel halts right-downe. 1646Bp. Maxwell Burd. Issach. 9 They threatned the Ministerie Right downe, That if they persisted in that course [etc.]. 1709J. Johnson Clergym. Vade M. ii. 194 They that used evasion, and did not right down subscribe the abnegation.
2. With pples. or adjs.: Thoroughly; out and out.
1648J. Beaumont Psyche xvii. lxix, Who has no power to be Right-down displeas'd at whatsoever sounds From those beloved lips. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 97 They..were right down honest well meaning people. 1832Mrs. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. (1901) II. 63 That's right down well done. 1838Dickens O. Twist vi, Yer mother was a regular right-down bad 'un. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms i, He was real rightdown sorry for me.
B. adj. Positive; thorough, complete.
1623in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 121 The Earl of Bristol made a more benign construction thereof, the Duke a right-down conclusion. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xxiii. cciv, Degenerating into Sorrows and Rightdown Vexations, rather than impart One Taste of Joy. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 16 Such pretended favours and kindnesses as these, are the most right down discourtesies in the world.
1875T. Seaton Fret-Cutting 1 Such fellows..get into all kinds of mischief, and become right-down scamps. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 221 Not a sheep near the place..; all good right-down cattle work to look forward to. |