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Goodly

//ˈɡʊdli// adj, adv

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable. dated

    "Her goodly thighs, whoſe glory did appear, / Like a triumphal Arch,[…]"

  2. 2
    Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough.

    "a goodly sum of money"

Adjective
  1. 1
    large in amount or extent or degree wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    In a goodly way; courteously, graciously. obsolete

    "Thenne he sente for the thre knyghtes & they came afore hym / and he cryed hem mercy of that he had done to them / and they forgaf hit hym goodely and he dyed anone"

  2. 2
    Well; excellently. dialectal, obsolete

    "For love of vertue and of martial praise; To which though nobly ye inclined are, (As goodlie well ye shew'd in late assaies)"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English goodly, goodlich, gōdlich, from Old English gōdlīċ (“good, goodly”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdalīk, from Proto-Germanic *gōdalīkaz (“good, goodly”); equivalent to good + -ly. Cognate with Dutch goedelijk, goelijk (“harmless, benign”), German gütlich (“friendly”), Icelandic góðlegur (“benign”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English goodly, goodliche, gōdliche, from Old English gōdlīċe (“goodly”), from the adjective; equivalent to good + -ly. Cognate with Middle High German guotlīche, güetlīche.

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