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
Over all cities thou queen in thy goodliness!
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
His neighbor wore an alpaca coat and no necktie whatever—a reticent, gray-whiskered man, whose bank account had a goodliness perhaps not to be suspected from first look at its owner.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
With Boccaccio the same genius proclaimed the beauty of the world, the goodliness of youth and strength and love and life, unterrified by hell, unappalled by the shadow of impending death.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
