godly

Never has he been more mortal—struck dumb and slow, crumbs spilling down his shirt—and never have we deemed him more godly.

Michael Kazin is the author, most recently, of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan and is co-editor of Dissent.

If it pleased the godly it was a god-send for Bunn whose exchequer it filled to repletion.

Only they saw deeper and truer into their profession, and found the secret of a true, happy, honourable and godly life.

The last few years have added to the Church of Scotland a high proportion of godly and devoted ministers.

In Connaught and other Irish districts ‘the godly,’ as the few Protestants esteemed themselves, thought it prudent to hide.

It was to their credit that they sought out godly men, to whom they might entrust the cure of souls.