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- noun Plural form of
goodness .
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Examples
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Perhaps the most industriously pursued of all her goodnesses was her unflagging zealous labour in Saving the Souls of
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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In their developed form they are known as virtues (the Greek means simply "goodnesses,"
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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From all this data I concluded that if I began immediately and worked and saved until I was fifty years of age, I could then stop working and enter into participation in a fair portion of the delights and goodnesses that would then be open to me higher up in society.
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And I made him my pal and comrade, and found him a veritable honey pot of sweetnesses and goodnesses.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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The rest of us can keep our little badnesses and our little goodnesses inside our four walls, doing much less damage (one hopes) but also much less benefit.
Katherine Gustafson: Tiger Woods: What Happens When a Great Philanthropist Goes Bad? 2010
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I've been meditating lately on how God brings good out of evil -- and not just one, single sort of goodness (ie: moral), but usually a variety of goodnesses, ranging from the simple to the humorously ironic to the deep and weighty and lasting variety.
Archive 2007-02-01 regina doman 2007
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I've been meditating lately on how God brings good out of evil -- and not just one, single sort of goodness (ie: moral), but usually a variety of goodnesses, ranging from the simple to the humorously ironic to the deep and weighty and lasting variety.
Surprised by Goodness regina doman 2007
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AN i says prayer dat howse bee filled wiff lubs and goodnesses an wunnurfull times furr menneh menneh yeers too cum!
From the Depths… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Thank goodnesses there b moar peepz to helping wif teh sport emergensee.
O ai, ai jus died - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And the good king answered: "I am quite certain that they do me much wrong, but when I consider the goodnesses and kindnesses which God has done me, I had rather that my rights should go, than have a contention or awaken a quarrel with Holy Church."
St Louis IX, letter to his Son de Brantigny........................ 2008
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