path of righteousness

collocation in English

meaningsofpathandrighteousness

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path
noun[C]
uk
/pɑːθ/us
/pæθ/
a route or track between one place and another, or the direction in which something ...
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righteousness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈraɪ.tʃəs.nəs/us
/ˈraɪ.tʃəs.nəs/
morally correct behaviour , or a feeling that you are behaving in a morally ...
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(Definition ofpathandrighteousnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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So that if it fell away from the paths of righteousness, the falling away took place at a later stage in its history.
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All the rest of us abhor what you are doing, and you are suspended until you return to the paths of righteousness.
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It is that, combined with the inherent fear of not doing something other boys and girls are doing, which militates so much against the paths of righteousness.
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We should accept that no employer should ever be allowed to use his authority to induce a young man to stray from the paths of righteousness.
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We must create the right conditions and penalties so that individuals find that the chances of being caught, multiplied by the penalty, bring them into the paths of righteousness.
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Destroying the wicked and revealing thepathofrighteousnessare one and inseparable, like back and front.
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He was widely respected and people from all walks of life visited him acquiring grace from his 'precious utterances', 'being directed thereby in thepathofrighteousnessand godly living'.
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There is certainly merit in this critique, which understandably incites fire and brimstone about the urgent moral imperative of getting the nation on thepathofrighteousnessat last.
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Of course, he strayed occasionally from the perfectpathofrighteousness, and some of us with all kindness tried to lure him back.
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I am prepared to help him in his endeavours and to return him to thepathofrighteousness.
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We are surely going down, as other nations have gone down, because we have lost the narrowpathofrighteousnessand principle.
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I am sure that no harm was suffered by that youngster, who probably preferred to be led into that path than into thepathofrighteousness.
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He is pushed to a corner by everybody who finds hispathofrighteousnesstoo difficult to handle, and one day he snaps.
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A paladin embodies good, and must therefore be pure of heart and never stray from thepathofrighteousness.
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Despite coming from a dark background, he severs ties with his family to follow thepathofrighteousness.
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For if we desire to possess them, we fall away from thepathofrighteousness.
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He is disgusted, and decides then that he would rather take thepathofrighteousnesseven if it meant starvation.
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The two paths are "asha", thepathofrighteousness, and "druj" the path of the lie.
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Kalki will establish moral law in the form of the fourfold "varnas", and organize society into four classes, after which there will be a return to thepathofrighteousness.
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In common parlance, "dharma" means right way of living andpathofrighteousness.
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