rightfully

English

Etymology

From Middle English ryghtefully, equivalent to rightful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

rightfully (comparative more rightfully, superlative most rightfully)

1. In accordance with what is right or just; fairly.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Stuart Mill and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

2. Rightly, correctly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     Ne euer will it breake, ne euer bend. / Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.