Godly

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Godly \God"ly\, a. [God, n. + -ly. Cf. {Godlike}, {Like}.]
     Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient
     to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his
     character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a
     godly life.
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           For godly sorrow worketh repentance.     --2 Cor. vii.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Godly \God"ly\, adv.
     Piously; devoutly; righteously.
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           All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
           persecution.                             --2. Tim. iii.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  godly
       adj 1: showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a
              godly life" [syn: {reverent}, {worshipful}]
       2: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance";
          "everything is black1 or white...satanic or
          godlyt"-Saturday Rev. [syn: {divine}]
       [also: {godliest}, {godlier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "godly":
     Christlike, Christly, God-fearing, angelic, celestial, devoted,
     devout, divine, empyrean, faithful, godlike, godly-minded, good,
     heavenly, holy, holy-minded, honest, incarnate, incarnated,
     intercessional, intercessive, just, made flesh, mediative,
     mediatory, moral, otherworldly, pietistic, pious, prayerful,
     propitiative, propitiatory, pure, pure in heart, purehearted,
     redemptive, religious, reverent, right-minded, righteous,
     saintlike, saintly, salvational, self-existent, seraphic,
     spiritual, spiritual-minded, straight, superhuman, supernatural,
     transcendent, unearthly, unworldly, upright, virtuous