The phrase "a righteous one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who is morally right or just, often in a religious or philosophical context.
Example: "In the community, he was known as a righteous one, always standing up for what was right and just."
Alternatives: "a virtuous person" or "a just individual".
Because they believe that their cause is a righteous one, they regard all tactics as legitimate.
His impulse is a righteous one!
Its use in conservative rhetoric affirms the belief that the struggle against the public option is a righteous one.
So while I think that the fight that I'm fighting is a righteous one, I am also very realistic about the chances of its resurrection or rebranding.
Do we want a lawyer to be an unabashed fighter for his cause by painting his defense as a righteous one, when righteousness for it is nowhere to be found?
The fight to protect our country against terrorism is ongoing and a righteous one -- but that's a war without defined borders and it's time we stop pretending this definition exists and that our troops are in the right place.
I am outing him as a hidden righteous one that is holding up the universe with his devotion to beauty and art.
Her mother is still alive in Russia, and she is adamant that the communist cause is a just and righteous one.
Lauren Sandler is a journalist and the author of Righteous, One and Only and a forthcoming book about a year in the life of a young homeless mother.
Western foreign policy, he wrote, is propagated in the media 'through a self righteous, one-way moral/legal screen [with] positive images of western values and innocence portrayed as threatened, validating a campaign of unrestricted violence'.
The model of a pious person is depicted in the righteous one of Psalm 5, "his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night". In the Hellenistic period (c. 300 bce c. 300 ce), when many Jews were susceptible to foreign religious influences, the Hasidim (the "pious" ones) segregated themselves from the others, holding fast to the faith of their fathers.
