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Definition: Godly |
GodlyAdjective1. Showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life". 2. Emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "godly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: GodlySynonyms: divine (adj), reverent (adj), worshipful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Piety | Adjective: pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly-minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic; saintly, saint-like; seraphic, sacred, solemn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Godly |
| English words defined with "godly": godlessness, godliness ♦ Heavenlyminded ♦ reverent ♦ ungodliness ♦ worshipful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "godly": Christian ♦ lettuce. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "godly": Godliness. (references) |
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Hosea Ballou | Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But he hath a godly minister or two with him, and likewise a leech |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus Lactuca, "Wherewith," says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song." |
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| "Godly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Godly" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 99 | 32,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "godly". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hamul | N/A | Biblical | Godly |
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Ending with "godly": un-godly. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "godly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | besimtar (believer, devotee, god fearing, pious, religioner, religious, worshipper). (various references) | |
Arabic | متدين (devout, god fearing, pious, practising, religious, ultra orthodox), تقي (devout, godliness, holy, immaculate, mystic, pious, prayerful, religious), صالح (adequate, good, make one's peace with, make up, pact, righteous, useful, valid, veracious, welfare, well being), إلهي (celestial, godlike). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | набожен (devotional, devout, pi, pious, prayerful, religious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 神 (GOD). (various references) | |
Czech | boží (godlike). (various references) | |
Farsi | خداشناس (Theist, Theologian), خداءی (Divine, Godhead, Heavenly, Numen), باخدا. (various references) | |
Finnish | jumalinen (devout, religious). (various references) | |
French | religieux, pieux (god fearing), dévot. (various references) | |
German | fromm (pious, piously, religious). (various references) | |
Greek | θεοσεβήσ (devout, pious). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ירא שמים (god fearing, pious, reverent), אדוק (devout, observant, orthodox, pious, religious). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vallásos (religious, devotional, pious), jámbor (pious, saintly, devotional, guileless, holy, religious), istenes, istenfélő (god-fearing, pious, religious), ájtatos (religious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ilahi (divine). (various references) | |
Italian | religioso (religious), devoto (devoted). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 信心深い (deeply religious, devout, faithful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しんじんぶかい (deeply religious, devout, faithful). (various references) | |
Manx | jeeoil (divine, godlike). (various references) | |
Norwegian | from (devout). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odlygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | religioso (religious, pious), piedoso (pious), devoto (ascetic, devotee, devotional, devout, obedientiary, pi, pious, prayerful, votary). (various references) | |
Romanian | pios (devout, holy, pious, piously, saintly), evlavios (bigoted, devotional, godlike, pious), cucernic (devout, devoutly, godlike, pious), bisericos (pious, religious). (various references) | |
Russian | благочестивый (pious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | božji. (various references) | |
Spanish | piadoso (devotional). (various references) | |
Swedish | gudlig (pious), gudfruktig (god fearing, pious). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งศรัทธาในศาสนา. (various references) | |
Turkish | sofu (ascetic, devotee, fanatic, fanatical, hot gospeler, religionist, religious), ilahi (anthem, canticle, celestial, chant, divine, elysian, heavenly, hymn, psalm), dindar (devotee, devotional, devout, godfearing, pious, prayerful, religious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | релігійний (devotional, devout, god fearing, religious), божественний (airy, ambrosial, celestial, divine, godlike, heavenly, olympian, out of this world, supernal, supernatural), благочестивий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sùng đạo (devotionally, havenly-minded), ngoan đạo (godfearing). (various references) | |
Welsh | duwiol (pious). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | appiae, appii, pia pium, pie, pios, pius. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai euhresthsen enwc tw qew kai ouc hurisketo oti meteqhken auton o qeoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ambulavitque cum Deo et non apparuit quia tulit eum Deus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ond he ne forðferde na, ac ferde mid Gode ond næs gesewen siððan mid mannum, for þan þæ God hine genam. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he yede with God, and he aperyde not, for God toke hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And than Henoch lyved a godly lyfe and was nomore sene for God toke hym away. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Henoch naglakaw uban sa Dios, ug nawala siya, kay gikuha siya sa Dios. |
| Chinese | 以 諾 與 神 同 行 、 神 將 他 取 去 、 他 就 不 在 世 了 。 |
| Croatian | Henok je hodio s Bogom, potom išèeznu; Bog ga uze. |
| Danish | og Enok vandrede med Gud, og han var ikke mere, thi Gud tog ham. |
| Dutch | Henoch dan wandelde met God; en hij was niet meer; want God nam hem weg. |
| Finnish | Ja kun Hanok oli vaeltanut Jumalan yhteydessä, ei häntä enää ollut, sillä Jumala oli ottanut hänet pois. |
| French | Hénoc marcha avec Dieu; puis il ne fut plus, parce que Dieu le prit. |
| German | Und dieweil er ein göttliches Leben führte, nahm ihn Gott hinweg, und er ward nicht mehr gesehen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Karena Henokh selalu hidup akrab dengan Allah, ia menghilang karena diambil oleh Allah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Henokh itu hidup dengan Allah, maka tiadalah ia lagi, karena diangkat Allah akan dia. |
| Maori | A i haereere tahi a Enoka i te Atua: a kua kahore ia: na te Atua hoki ia i tango. |
| Norwegian | Og Enok vandret med Gud; så blev han borte, for Gud tok ham til sig. |
| Portuguese | Enoque andou com Deus; e não apareceu mais, porquanto Deus o tomou. |
| Rumanian | Enoh a umblat cu Dumnezeu; apoi nu s`a mai vqzut, pentru cq l -a luat Dumnezeu. |
| Swedish | Sedan Hanok så hade vandrat i umgängelse med Gud, såg man honom icke mer, ty Gud tog honom bort. |
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Words ending with "godly": ungodly. (additional references) | |
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"Godly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bodly, gadali, gadly, gasly, Gdy, Gedali, geonly, goddy, Godel, Godey, godfly, godry, gody, gogli, goidelic, Goldby, goldi, goldy, goli, golie, goly, Gomley, gooday, goodely, googlie, Gorlay, Goslyn, gothy, Gotley, Gotlieb, Goulmy, grody, gurly, odly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "godly" (pronounced gÄ"dlē) |
| 4 | -Ä" d l ē | oddly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, kindly, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, fondly, friendly, gladly, goodly, grandly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, profoundly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, roundly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, solidly, soundly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unfriendly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: dogy, gold, logy, odyl, oldy. | |
-2 letters: dog, dol, god, goy, log, old, yod. | |
-3 letters: do, go, lo, od, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: goodly. | |
+2 letters: dayglow, daylong, godlily, goldeye, podgily, ungodly, yodling. | |
+3 letters: bodingly, dayglows, doggedly, dollying, dotingly, doxology, gardyloo, goldenly, goldeyes, gorgedly, gyroidal, hydrogel, idealogy, ideology, pedology, stodgily, yodeling. | |
+4 letters: adoringly, audiology, bigotedly, bloodying, condignly, deploying, doggishly, doughtily, dragonfly, droningly, gargoyled, glycoside, goldeneye, hydrogels, hydrology, iridology, radiology, yodelling. | |
+5 letters: amygdaloid, broodingly, cardiology, codicology, demonology, dendrology, deontology, diagonally, doubtingly, droopingly, gladsomely, glycolipid, glycosides, glycosidic, goldeneyes, holidaying, hydrologic, playground, ploddingly, prodigally, soundingly, syllogized, troglodyte, zygodactyl. | |
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