|
|
Definition of Good person
1. Noun. A person who is good to other people.
Specialized synonyms: Benefactor, Helper, Brick, Giver, Good Egg, Mensch, Mensh, Plaster Saint, Rock, Angel, Holy Man, Holy Person, Saint, Square Shooter, Straight Arrow, Straight Shooter, Sweetheart, Trouper
Antonyms: Bad Person
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Person
Literary usage of Good person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"seemed a very accomplished prince, and became himself very well, having a good
person and graceful motion, which that nation seldom attain to. ..."
2. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860)
"... even telling her that Bonaparte had never had any beautiful and good person
near him who might guide and direct him. Then Madame Murat came, ..."
3. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1907)
"He has a good person, great ease of manners, quick eye, open countenance, fine
taste, & an excellent imagination with good judgment. ..."
4. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1914)
"Spent an hour with Commodore Tingey from Washington. He was at the 4 July on
Bunker Hill. He is a good person, fond of conversation & agreable. ..."
5. The Third Way to a Good Society by Amitai Etzioni (2000)
"... that a good person, a member of a good society, contributes to the common good.
No one is exempt, although of course people will vary greatly in the ..."
6. The Works of Sydney Smith by Sydney Smith (1844)
"Our plan is, to fix upon the description of person, and then to leave the price
to find its level ; for the good price by no means implies a good person, ..."
7. The life of Wesley; and the rise and progress of Methodism by Robert Southey (1820)
"Among Wesley's pupils at Lincoln was a young man, by name Hall, of good person,
considerable talents, and manners which were in a high degree In sure and ..."
8. Works by Sydney Smith (1858)
"Our plan is, to fix upon the description of person, and then to leave the price
to find its level ; for the good price by no means implies a good person, ..."
Other Resources:
