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right-minded, a.
[f. right a. + mind n.1]
1. Having a mind naturally inclined or disposed towards what is right. Also transf.
1585–6Hooker Serm. iii. Wks. 1888 III. 601 There is no incongruity in terming them right-minded men. 1791Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 396 The public prosperity is great, and the nation is right-minded. 1833Tracts for Times No. 10. 3 All well-disposed, right-minded people. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 488 The good and right-minded have power to fulfil what is to the glory of God. 1885Ruskin Præterita v. §102 As all right-minded apprentices and good shopmen do. 1933Granta 19 Apr. 358/1 These appointments have been virtually closed to Jews, Socialists, and indeed any but right-minded nationalists for many years. 1961Times 28 Dec. 11/4 For those who enjoy books set in Oxford, there were at least two detective stories, a right-minded farce by Mr. Dacre Balsdon [etc.].
2. colloq. Sane; of sound mind.
1877Blackmore Cripps vi, That his sister was not ‘right-minded’—that she dreamed things, and imagined things.
Hence right-ˈmindedness.
a1817Jane Austen Persuasion i, With her had died all such right-mindedness. 1830H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (1834) 153 She possessed a right-mindedness towards the really beautiful, which was then..rare in France. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 174 That simple confidence of his in the right-mindedness of his fellow-men is very touching. |