Goodlihood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state, quality, or condition of being goodly; goodlihead; beauty; splendor. uncountable

    "Oh, could I see as then That figure of defiance, as he stood, Isled in a hush, in all his goodlihood, Superb, majestical, a man of men!"

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"Oh, could I see as then That figure of defiance, as he stood, Isled in a hush, in all his goodlihood, Superb, majestical, a man of men!"

Etymology

From goodly + -hood, or as a modern assimilation of earlier goodlihead.

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