unright · noun1
- Old English · inherited fromunriht“wrong, sin, vice, wickedness, evil, injustice, oppression, a wrong act”
- Middle English · inherited fromunright
- English todayunright
From Middle English unright, unriȝt, unriht, from Old English unriht (“wrong, sin, vice, wickedness, evil, injustice, oppression, a wrong act”), equivalent to un- (“absence of”) + right. Cognate with Scots unricht (“wrongdoing, injustice”), Dutch onrecht (“injustice, inequity, wrong”), German Unrecht (“injustice”), Swedish orätt (“injustice, wrong, sin”).
unright · verb2
- Middle English · inherited fromunrighten
- English todayunright
From Middle English unrighten, from unright (“unright”, adj.).
unright · adjective, adverb3
- Old English · inherited fromunrihte“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”
- Middle English · inherited fromunright
- English todayunright
From Middle English unright, unrighte, from Old English unrihte (“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”), equivalent to un- + right.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.