How do you pronounce righteously?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɹˈaɪtʃəsli/.

Where does righteously come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/ɹˈaɪtʃəsli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English

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"One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them. But you’ll not want to hear my 'moralising, Mr. Lockwood; you’ll judge, as well as I can, all these things:"
"We uttered our chagrin that the spokesmen for the American conscience—aye, for the "conscience of civilization"—had sanctioned the confessed immorality of the Shantung award to satisfy a secret covenant against which we righteously proclaimed, and we did all we can do to right the wrong."
"Even if Trump isn’t righteously jousting with the judge and being persecuted by the Soros machine, he can tell his base that he is. Even better, he can talk a good game without doing things that might risk judicial sanctions."

From Middle English rightwisly, from Old English rihtwīslīce; equivalent to righteous + -ly.

more righteously (comparative) most righteously (superlative) rightwisely (alternative, obsolete)

damn right rightly so self-righteously serve someone right

arightly damn right rightfully rightly rightly so self-righteously serve someone right