in its own right

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in its own right - by reason of one's own ability or ownership etc.; "she's a rich woman in her own right rather than by inheritance"; "an excellent novel in its own right"

in her own right, in his own right, in one's own right

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duchess
Estate in severalty
grand duchess
in her own right
in his own right

in one's own right
own right
right
title
viscountess

Maybe it will begin to revenge itself, too, but, as it were, piecemeal, in trivial ways, from behind the stove, incognito, without believing either in its own right to vengeance, or in the success of its revenge, knowing that from all its efforts at revenge it will suffer a hundred times more than he on whom it revenges itself, while he, I daresay, will not even scratch himself.

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

Thus the things already mentioned, and these alone, are in their intrinsic nature quantities; nothing else can claim the name in its own right, but, if at all, only in a secondary sense.

The Categories by Aristotle View in context

It loses personal form and activity--these passing over to the content--and becomes a bare Bewusstheit or Bewusstsein uberhaupt, of which in its own right absolutely nothing can be said.

The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context

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In high and low
in high spirits
in his own right
in his right mind
In hot water
In idle
In ill part
in its own right
In jest
In joke
in kind
in large quantities
in league
in line
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