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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

Jokul said, "I see now that it is of no avail to stop thee, but true it is what men say, that good-luck is one thing, and goodliness another."

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

The other captains of the Greeks came up and looked at Hector where he lay and all marvelled at his size and strength and goodliness.

From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Pogany, Willy

All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the Word of our God shall stand for ever.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander