goodly
adjective
of good or substantial size, amount, etc..
goodliest
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superlativeof goodly.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Virginia “is wonderfull fertile and very rich,” he told the company, with “a goodly River called Patomack, upon the borders whereof there are grown the goodliest Trees.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2017
From the outside Satan can see "higher than that wall a circling row / Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011
We also went through the goodliest corn-fields that ever were seen in any country.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
This is the goodliest people, and of the fairest conditions that we haue found in this our voyage.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
He's ta'en out the goodliest, Rain that rains in the mill-water; A comb of yellow shell for all the rest, A comb of gold for the king's daughter.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
