rights

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪts/

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• Homophones: rites, writes
• Rhymes: -aɪts

rights

1. plural of right

rights

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of right

• “rights”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• rights in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rights”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• girths, griths

rights m pl

1. plural of right

rights

1. alternative form of reights
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 23-24:

     proo'th, y'at wee alane needeth ye giftes o'generale rights, az be displayte bie ee factes o'thie goveremente.

     proves that we alone stood in need of the enjoyment of common privileges, as is demonstrated by the results of your government.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114