rightship

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English

Etymology

From right +‎ -ship.

Noun

rightship (uncountable)

(rare, dialectal or nonstandard) The quality of being right, just, or reasonable; justice, truth; dependence, trustworthiness; reasonableness.
- 1899, Walter Raymond, Two men O' Mendip:
  There's no rightship in so much fighting over nothing but what's fair.
- 1899, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, The Idler Magazine, volume 15, page 53:
  He spoke with firm conviction, as if the rightship of this to any English understanding must be beyond doubt.
- 1916, John Read, Latter-Lammas, page 89:
  Othertimes the rightship o't not zo plain: the path do varky, an' 'tes a hardish job to zee which vark to volly.
- 2005, Douglas Walthew Rice, The Life and Achievements of Sir John Popham, 1531-1607:
  Of course, this was very disturbing, so the services of a 'white witch' were sought, and 'he mumbled a lot of stuff what nobody could make any rightship of, and weeshed (wished) him back to the Pit again.'

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