GOODLY

adv. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

Excellently. [Obs.] Spenser.

2.
a.

Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. We have many goodly days to see. Shak.

3.
a.

Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses. The goodliest man of men since born. Milton.

4.
a.

Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. Goodly and great he sails behind his link. Dryden.

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