Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a godly manner; piously; righteously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Righteously.
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- adverb In a
godly fashion;righteously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The quaker's pate godlily with a priesteen in booktalk.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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When all these things so godlily to you I do reveal.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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In short, all would then deny Ungodliness and worldly Lusts; and live soberly, righteously and godlily in this present world, and so walk Hand in Hand together in the narrow way that leads to everlasting Life.
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712
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It should also bid them beware of launching further into the world, than in an honest way, by ordinary means, they can godlily make their retreat; for the further in the greater fall.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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The fathers of the English Church; or, A selection from the writings of the ... 1812
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The quaker’s pate godlily with a priesteen in booktalk. —
Ulysses 2003
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"Furthermore, I believe that there is a place of purgatory, where souls departed be punished for a time, for whom the church doth godlily and wholesomely pray, like as it doth honour saints and make prayers to them.
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