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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goodly/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goodly/#x1)
- The garden bloomed with a goodly show of the fairest roses. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goodly/#x2)
- How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel! (Torah NUM.24.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goodly/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1620/)
- [How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.871/)
- [lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.258/)
- [Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.438/)
- [Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.57/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «goodly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goodly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.