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- noun Plural form of
godliness .
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The word "all" is not in the original; but both the other words are in the plural number, -- "In holy conversations and godlinesses."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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This is "the holy commandment" mentioned in 2Pe 3: 2. conversation ... godliness -- Greek, plural: behaviors (towards men), godlinesses (or pieties towards God) in their manifold modes of manifestation.
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Mr. Secretary Pepys gave a great library to Magdalen College at Cambridge: but among the folios peeped out little black-letter ballads and 'penny merriments, penny witticisms, penny compliments, and penny godlinesses.'
The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869
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