English

Adjective

goodly ‎(comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (archaic) Good, pleasing in appearance.
   • Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Ballad of Death, lines 26–27

     O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her

     Was made a goodly thing

2. (archaic) Quite large; considerable.

   a goodly sum of money

   walking at a goodly pace

Etymology 2

From Middle English goodly, goodliche, gōdliche, from Old English gōdlīċe ‎(“goodly”), from the adjective, equivalent to good +‎ -ly. Cognate with Middle High German guotlīche, güetlīche.

Adverb

goodly ‎(comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     Thenne he sente for the thre knyghtes & they came afore hym / and he cryed hem mercy of that he had done to them / and they forgaf hit hym goodely and he dyed anone / Whanne the kynge was dede / alle the cyte was desmayed and wyst not who myghte be her kynge

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:

     Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall […].

2. (obsolete) Excellently.

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