Goodless vs Goldless - What's the difference?
goodless | goldless |
Without goods or property; destitute.
*1892 , Horace Traubel, The conservator :
*1922 , Henry Noel Brailsford, After the peace :
*2009 , Alan Brudner, Punishment and Freedom :
Worthless.
Lacking or devoid of good or goodness.
*1887 , William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, The faith that makes faithful :
As adjectives the difference between goodless and goldless
is that goodless is without goods or property; destitute while goldless is lacking gold.goodless
English
Adjective
(-)- I have therefore declared that it is all one whether a man says "God" or "good:" he is saying the same thing in substance, and cannot be called "godless" until he is goodless .
- It may be an exaggeration to suppose that the country deliberately injures itself a little in order to hurt the goodless town more, but it is certainly true that the peasants, farmers and landlords (where these survive) refuse to regard it as any part of their patriotic duty to make the least effort, [...]
- Punishment conceived as the logical nemesis of the criminal's principle is embedded in a goodless normative framework; that is its home.
- If there are souls to whom this world seems a goodless realm, who fail to find divine tokens of love anywhere, you and I are partly responsible.