Goodly vs Largely - What's the difference?
goodly | largely |
(archaic) good, pleasing in appearance
* , A Ballad of Death , lines 26–27
(archaic) Quite large; considerable.
(obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
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*: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
*, II.ix:
*:Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall.
(obsolete) Excellently.
:(Spenser)
In a widespread or large manner.
For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
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*:"Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.
(obsolete) Fully, at great length.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
As adverbs the difference between goodly and largely
is that goodly is (obsolete) in a goodly way; courteously, graciously while largely is in a widespread or large manner.As an adjective goodly
is (archaic) good, pleasing in appearance.goodly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) goodly, goodlich, .Adjective
(er)- ''O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her
- ''Was made a goodly thing
- a goodly sum of money
- walking at a goodly pace
Etymology 2
From (etyl) goodly, goodliche, .Adverb
(er)largely
English
Adverb
(en-adv)- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .
- It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.