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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''forthriht'', from forth + ''riht'' right
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1:a. Directly forward, in or towards the front, straight before one.
:b. Straight out, [[horizontally]].
::1882 A. C. Swinburne, ''Tristram of Lyonesse'' 49 "Forthright upon his steed [he] Leap"t.
*2: Straightway, [[immediately]], at once.
*3:a. Proceeding in a straight [[course]], directly in front of one, straight forward.
:b. Going straight to the [[point]], straightforward, unswerving, outspoken; also, unhesitating, dexterous.
*4: A straight [[course]] or path
==Derivative==
*''Forthrightness'' - the [[quality]] of [[being]] forthright; straightforwardness.
::1873 J. R. Lowell ''Among my Bks''. 2nd Ser. 123 Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.
::1879 F. W. Farrar ''Life & Work St. Paul'' I. iii. xii. 225 He‥carried into his arguments that [[intensity]] and ''forthrightness'' which awaken dormant [[opposition]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''forthriht'', from forth + ''riht'' right
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1:a. Directly forward, in or towards the front, straight before one.
:b. Straight out, [[horizontally]].
::1882 A. C. Swinburne, ''Tristram of Lyonesse'' 49 "Forthright upon his steed [he] Leap"t.
*2: Straightway, [[immediately]], at once.
*3:a. Proceeding in a straight [[course]], directly in front of one, straight forward.
:b. Going straight to the [[point]], straightforward, unswerving, outspoken; also, unhesitating, dexterous.
*4: A straight [[course]] or path
==Derivative==
*''Forthrightness'' - the [[quality]] of [[being]] forthright; straightforwardness.
::1873 J. R. Lowell ''Among my Bks''. 2nd Ser. 123 Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.
::1879 F. W. Farrar ''Life & Work St. Paul'' I. iii. xii. 225 He‥carried into his arguments that [[intensity]] and ''forthrightness'' which awaken dormant [[opposition]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
