goodness

IPA: gˈʊdnʌs

noun

  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.
  • (countable) The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
  • (uncountable, euphemistic) God.
  • (Christianity) The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.
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Examples of "goodness" in Sentences

  • The downside of all this goodness is the price tag.
  • Its creamy goodness is a hit with adults, children, and everybody in between.
  • He prided himself upon what he called his goodness of heart, and was always speaking of his humanity.
  • Jennings prided himself upon what he called his goodness of heart and was always speaking of his humanity.
  • Jennings prided himself upon what he called his goodness of heat, and was always speaking of his humanity.
  • It must be because you supposed his goodness what you call goodness -- not something else -- that you could love him on testimony.
  • A second proof that the approbation of goodness is not the love of it is found in the fact, that _it is impossible not to approve of goodness_, while it is possible not to love it.
  • We cannot reduce them to something they all have in common, or sensibly claim that there is a disjunctive property of goodness (such that goodness is ˜goodness in one of the various ways '.
  • Why was it that the late Samuel Butler, with a conviction that increased with his experience of life, preached the gospel of Laodicea, urging people to be temperate in what they called goodness as in everything else?

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