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GODLY (godlier, godliest)
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, godliest Dictionary entry overview: What does godly mean?
• GODLY (adjective)
The adjective GODLY has 2 senses:
1. showing great reverence for god
2. emanating from God
Familiarity information: GODLY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing great reverence for god
Synonyms:
godly; reverent; worshipful
Context example:
leading a godly life
Similar:
pious (having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity)
Derivation:
godliness (piety by virtue of being a godly person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Emanating from God
Synonyms:
divine; godly
Context example:
everything is black or white...satanic or godly
Similar:
heavenly (of or belonging to heaven or god)
Derivation:
God (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)
godliness (piety by virtue of being a godly person)
Context examples
Why, you had scarce gone ere this loathly John came running back again, and, when I oped mouth to reproach him, he asked me whether it was indeed likely that a man of prayer would leave his own godly raiment in order to take a layman's jerkin.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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