(dated,humorous) The state or quality of a goody or goodwife.
Butler, Samuel. Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Edinburgh: Printed for R. Clark, P. Anderson, & A. Brown, 1784. Part I, Canto 3, lines 517–518.
The more shame for her goodyship, / To give so near a friend the slip.