Wrong
(Wrong), n. [AS. wrang. See Wrong, a.] That which is not right. Specifically: (a) Nonconformity
or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; — the opposite of moral right.
When I had wrong and she the right.
Chaucer.
One spake much of right and wrong.
Milton. (b) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong. (c) Whatever
deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury
on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.
Friend, I do thee no wrong.
Matt. xx. 18.
As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither can he do right but in his courts and by his courts.
Milton.
The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as binding as that of paying a debt.
E. Evereth. Wrongs, legally, are private or public. Private wrongs are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals;
public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect the community. Blackstone.
Wrong
(Wrong) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wronged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wronging.]
1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved
harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul.
Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honorable men.
Shak. Wrongdoer
(Wrong"do`er) n.
1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
2. (Law) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe.
Wrongdoing
(Wrong"do`ing), n. Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Wronger
(Wrong"er) n. One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
Wrongful
(Wrong"ful) a. Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful
dealing. — Wrong"ful*ly, adv. — Wrong"ful*ness, n.
Wronghead
(Wrong"head`) n. A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character. [R.]
Wronghead
(Wrong"head`), a. Wrongheaded. [R.] Pope.
