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Righting
- verb - make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- make right or correct;
- put in or restore to an upright position; "They righted the sailboat that had capsized"
- regain an upright or proper position; "The capsized boat righted again"
Rightish
- adjective - tending toward the political right
Rightism
- noun - the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right
Rightist
- adjective - a member of a right wing political party
- believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
Rigidify
- verb - become rigid; "The body rigidified"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
Rigidity
- noun - the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
- the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
Rigorism
- - Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
Rigorist
- - One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
Rim-Fire
- - Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.