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Example sentences for "rightly understood"

  • But that an unsavory odour is gentilitious or national unto the Jews, if rightly understood, we cannot well concede; nor will the information of reason or sence induce it.

  • Now whereas there be many observations concerning East, and divers considerations of Art which seem to extol the quality of that point, if rightly understood they do not really promote it.

  • Honour is justice, rightly understood: Your idol honour's only heat of blood.

  • All the former part of this passage relates to the resurrection of the blessed; but the words, "the earth of the wicked shall fall," is rightly understood as meaning that the bodies of the wicked shall fall into the ruin of damnation.

  • We have seen that the term wealth, rightly understood, means the fruit of the time-binding work of humanity.

  • It is exactly the same with money if the term be rightly understood.

  • For engineering, rightly understood, is the coordinated sum-total of human knowledge gathered through the ages, with mathematics as its chief instrument and guide.

  • But perhaps the constitution itself, if rightly understood, solves the problem; and perhaps the problem itself is raised precisely through misunderstanding of the constitution.

  • For it is said, and, rightly understood, there may after all be something in it, to have been the cause of the Goodwin Sands.

  • It is assumed also that the charity of the religious life, if rightly understood, cannot be inconsistent with that of the social life.

  • The wants of the case, rightly understood, should govern the decision as to what charity should do and what it should provide.

  • Rightly understood it made necessary all that followed.

  • Of these three powers those of Ravenna and Rome were, of course, by far the more important; for indeed the conversion of the Lombards was, rightly understood, but a part of the work of Gregory.

  • The word used is not the same as that employed in the first verse to describe the creation of the world; and the passage, rightly understood, implies the previous existence of the heavenly bodies.

  • The position which I take, and which I shall endeavor to maintain, is, that scientific truth, rightly understood, is religious truth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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