goodliness
- 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
Now, remember, whatever virtue or goodliness there may be in this game of war, rightly played, there is none when you thus play it with a multitude of small human pawns.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
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
I think he was blessed with all the comeliness and goodliness of the Golden Age.”
From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
