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BY RIGHTS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does by rights mean?
• BY RIGHTS (adverb)
The adverb BY RIGHTS has 1 sense:
1. with reason or justice
Familiarity information: BY RIGHTS used as an adverb is very rare.
Context examples
You belong by rights to girls like Lizzie Connolly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And it makes me feel grown-up, the thought of it, the very thought of it; and I feel that I am possessed of something that is by rights my own—that makes me like the other girls—and—and young women.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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