goodly

«goodly» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: fine, handsome — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

fine, handsome

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

fine, handsome or pleasing to see. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is old-fashioned, mostly meaning quite large as in 'a goodly amount'; here it means fine or pleasing.

examples

• Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. (Torah GEN.49.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• The garden bloomed with a goodly show of the fairest roses. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel! (Torah NUM.24.5, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

goodly

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 33 (Torah 10, tales 23, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.7 (Torah alone 23.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
• How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel!
• lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
• Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon.
• Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «goodly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.