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No. American Heritage treats the political sense as a later seating-based development in legislative assemblies.
/raɪt/ · adjective
Correct, just, suitable, straight, or on one side; inherited through Old English riht from a Germanic straight-and-correct formation.
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Attributes the political sense to legislative seating.
Etymology note for the political nounSeparates political senses from the inherited etymology.
Headword definitionsThe political branch is not projected into the reconstructed straight-and-direct root.