Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of rights; without right.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking
right (s)
Etymologies
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Examples
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As stateless persons, they wake up bearing the status of the most vulnerable -- the rightless.
Danielle C. Jefferis: Waking Up Stateless in Jerusalem Danielle C. Jefferis 2011
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We have a responsibility and at some point you just have to stand up for what is rightless than a minute ago via Twitter for AndroidDrew Brees drewbrees
Players, owners react as NFLPA decertifies, lockout looms 2011
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She was now rightless, only a nameless animal, incapable of doing anything whatsoever to qualify or alter her status.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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"The calamity of the rightless," wrote Hannah Arendt, "is not that they are deprived of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or of equality before the law and the freedom of opinion -- formulas which were designed to solve problem within given communities -- but they no longer belong to any community whatsoever."
Aldo Civico: Colombia: The Calamity of Displaced People 2009
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People who join the National Front consider force a globally acceptable tool and consider some of us rightless untermenschen.
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Scholarly accounts of "slave" (nhloko) marriage stress the exploited, oppressed, and rightless status of such women and their children, who were sought to enlarge the Gaza ruling class and to provide elite Nguni or acculturated "Tsonga" men with a means of accumulating wealth and attracting followers.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The nature of her own personal activism is based on the fact of reality that women in that world are virtually rightless beings at the mercy of a barbaric stone-age culture.
Actual Royalty To Join Social Media Royalty At Le Web 2009 Michael Arrington 2005
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African communities that had submitted to the Boer yoke earlier were rightless helots from amongst whom the Boer farmers could impress labourers.
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Our people too crossed the ocean of dispossession and displacement to become rightless labourers in the land of their birth.
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Our people too crossed the ocean of dispossession and displacement to become rightless labourers in the land of their birth.
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