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Definition of Good will
1. Noun. A disposition to kindness and compassion. "The victor's grace in treating the vanquished"
2. Noun. (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets).
Category relationships: Accounting
Generic synonyms: Intangible, Intangible Asset
3. Noun. The friendly hope that something will succeed.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Will
Literary usage of Good will
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1882)
"some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—but I will
not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by showing ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"MONOPOLIES (§ 12*)—SALE OP good will- AGREEMENT NOT то RE-ENGAGE IN BUSINESS—STATUTES.
A provision of an agreement for the sale of a partner's interest that ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Eke than if it fail«, it sheweth it self, that good will in keping is not there.
And thus false will that putteth out the good, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The fear of forfeiting the good will and help of the Deity, and of incurring His
punishment, gives rise to regret, which in higher religions is made more ..."
5. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"Where the tendency of the act is good, and the motive is the purely social one
of good-will. In this case the disposition indicated is a beneficent one. ..."
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