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riht n (Early West Saxon)
- right, law, justice, moral correctness
- Wiþerwearde Godes beboda and ðæs gastlican rihtes ― opponents of God’s commands and the spiritual law. (Homilies)
- a right, a justifiable entitlement to something or to some action
- one’s right, one’s proper due
- nelle ic ða rincas rihtes benæman ― I will not deprive the men of their due. (Cædmon’s Metrical Paraphrase)