rightings
Acts of correcting
Rightings are acts of correcting wrongs or restoring things to proper position.
The word appears most often in the phrase the righting of wrongs, describing efforts to remedy injustices.
A ship's righting refers to its return to upright position after listing.
The plural is uncommon outside these specific contexts.
Unjust or harmful acts
- injusticesActs denying fairness
- mistakesUnintended wrong actions
- errorsUnintentional deviations from correctness
- remedyingCorrecting a fault
fixing · amending · redressing · rectifying · repairing · undoing · reversing · compensating
Felt wrongs or injustices
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- liberationRelease from constraint
- reformImprove by correcting faults
revolution · activism · advocacy · protest · resistance · emancipation · equality · freedom
wrongs
Unjust or harmful acts
- injusticesActs denying fairness
- mistakesUnintended wrong actions
- errorsUnintentional deviations from correctness
remedying · fixing · amending · redressing · rectifying · repairing · undoing · reversing · compensating · restoring
grievances
Felt wrongs or injustices
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- liberationRelease from constraint
reform · revolution · activism · advocacy · protest · resistance · emancipation · equality · freedom · democracy
capsizing
Watercraft inverting suddenly
- overturningCausing to flip
- keelingShip maintenance or capsize
- listingRecorded item in catalog
heeling · stabilizing · ballast · buoyancy · hull · vessel · boat · ship · recovery · uprighting
rightingswrongdoings
Immoral or illegal acts
wrongs · transgressions · offenses · misdeeds · injustices
rightingscapsizings
Boats overturning in water
topplings · tippings · uprootings · upsets · destabilizations