goodly
adjective
of good or substantial size, amount, etc..
goodliness
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a word derived from
goodly.
Example Sentences
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Johnson has ended a 19-year run of white actors playing Glinda in any professional “Wicked” company, a milestone made even more powerful since Glinda is the very essence of goodliness.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Economic goodliness, organizing skill, a harmless personality with neither pungent anecdotes nor the taint of scandal.
From Time Magazine Archive
She remarked upon the goodliness of the scene, quite as if the present were not a technical year for cattle raisers.
From Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson
Heaven regards not the goodliness of the person, looks not as man looks; for God regards the heart.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
One heard much of Havelok, though, for word of him and his strength and goodliness, and of his kindness moreover, went through the town, with tales of what he had done.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
