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RIGHTLY, adverb

1. According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; as duty rightly performed.

2. Properly; fitly; suitably; as a person rightly named.

3. According to truth or fact; not erroneously. He has rightly conjectured.

4. Honestly; uprightly.

5. Exactly.

Thou didst not rightly see.

6. Straightly; directly. [Not in use.]