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godly

/god-lee/US // ˈgɒd li //UK // (ˈɡɒdlɪ) //

虔诚的,敬虔的,属神的,虔诚

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    god·li·er, god·li·est.

    • : conforming to the laws and wishes of God; devout; pious.
    • : coming from God; divine.

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Examples

  • His fast remixes have transformed 21 Savage’s dour murmurs into angel whispers and Pop Smoke’s godly baritone into the voice of a suave norm.

  • Proving that while his people would likely have granted him immortality in death, he probably should have left the godly PR campaign to others while he enjoyed eternal slumber.

  • Bradford concentrated on the Pilgrims’ struggle to create their godly community.

  • He and his wife immediately start to think of this peculiar child as not just otherworldly, but godly.

  • Never has he been more mortal—struck dumb and slow, crumbs spilling down his shirt—and never have we deemed him more godly.

  • Michael Kazin is the author, most recently, of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan and is co-editor of Dissent.

  • If it pleased the godly it was a god-send for Bunn whose exchequer it filled to repletion.

  • Only they saw deeper and truer into their profession, and found the secret of a true, happy, honourable and godly life.

  • The last few years have added to the Church of Scotland a high proportion of godly and devoted ministers.

  • In Connaught and other Irish districts ‘the godly,’ as the few Protestants esteemed themselves, thought it prudent to hide.

  • It was to their credit that they sought out godly men, to whom they might entrust the cure of souls.