'Godly' definitions:
Definition of 'godly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life" [syn: godly, reverent, worshipful]
adjective
Emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly]
Definition of 'Godly'
From: GCIDE
- Godly \God"ly\, a. [God, n. + -ly. Cf. Godlike, Like.] Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life. [1913 Webster]
- For godly sorrow worketh repentance. --2 Cor. vii. 10. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Godly'
From: GCIDE
- Godly \God"ly\, adv. Piously; devoutly; righteously. [1913 Webster]
- All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. --2. Tim. iii. 12. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'godly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angelic,
- celestial,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- devoted,
- devout,
- divine,
- empyrean,
- faithful,
- God-fearing,
- godlike,
- godly-minded,
- good,
- heavenly,
- holy,
- holy-minded,
- honest,
- incarnate,
- incarnated,
- intercessional,
- intercessive,
- just,
- made flesh,
- mediative,
- mediatory,
- moral,
- otherworldly,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prayerful,
- propitiative,
- propitiatory,
- pure,
- pure in heart,
- purehearted,
- redemptive,
- religious,
- reverent,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- saintlike,
- saintly,
- salvational,
- self-existent,
- seraphic,
- spiritual,
- spiritual-minded,
- straight,
- superhuman,
- supernatural,
- transcendent,
- unearthly,
- unworldly,
- upright,
- virtuous
Words containing 'Godly'
- God,
- god's will,
- Act of God,
- Father in God,
- Gallery gods,
- Genial gods,
- God fearing,
- God him see,
- God me see,
- God speed,
- God speed you,
- God the Son,
- God you see,
- God's Sunday,
- God's acre,
- God's field,
- God's house,
- God's penny,
- Household gods,
- Judgment of God,
- Kingdom of God,
- Lamb of God,
- Mother of God,
- Olympic gods,
- Peace of God,
- River god,
- Sea god,
- Son of God,
- The Love god,
- The god of love,
- To walk with God,
- Truce of God,
- Water god,
- Ways of God,
- Wood god,
- assemblies of god,
- city of god,
- decrees of god,
- earth god,
- fertility god,
- foreknowledge of god,
- forest god,
- goat god,
- god almighty,
- god knows how,
- god of war,
- god tree,
- god's wisdom,
- goodness of god,
- government of god,
- grace of god,
- house of God,
- judgments of god,
- justice of god,
- lap of the gods,
- olympic god,
- party of god,
- river of god,
- scourge of god,
- scourge of the gods,
- snake god,
- soldiers of god,
- sun god,
- tree of the gods,
- twilight of the gods,
- war god,
- word of god,
- Belly-god,
- Father-God,
- God-fearing,
- Most Reverend Father in God,
- earth-god,
- god-awful,
- god-forsaken,
- honest-to-God,
- To take the name of God in vain