Meaning of GODLY
| Pronunciation: | | 'gâdlee
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- [adj] emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev.
- [adj] showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life"
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| | Synonyms: | | divine, heavenly, pious, reverent, worshipful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance. --2 Cor. vii.
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\God"ly\, adv.
Piously; devoutly; righteously.
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution. --2. Tim. iii.
12.
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| | Related Terms: | | angelic, celestial, Christlike, Christly, devoted, devout, divine, empyrean, faithful, God-fearing, 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, righteous, right-minded, saintlike, saintly, salvational, self-existent, seraphic, spiritual, spiritual-minded, straight, superhuman, supernatural, transcendent, unearthly, unworldly, upright, virtuous |
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