Definition of Good nature

1. Noun. A cheerful, obliging disposition.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Nature

good humor
good humour
good humouredness
good job
good jobs
good length
good lick
good looking
good looks
good luck
good luck charm
good manners
good morning
good mornings
good morrow
good nature (current term)
good naturedness
good news
good night
good now
good offices
good ol'
good ol' boy
good ol' boys
good old
good old boy
good old boy network
good old boys
good ole
good ole boy

Literary usage of Good nature

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"His contemporaries all agree in acknowledging that he was the soul of affability and sprightly good-nature. ETHERIDGE, JOHN WESLEY (1804-1866), ..."

2. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"Good-nature, being the relies and remains of that shipwreck which Adam made, ... When good-nature is heightened by the grace of God, that which was natural ..."

3. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. ..."

4. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1821)
"Now it is an undisputed fact that the average man does care comparatively little for erudition in women, and very much for physical beauty, good nature, ..."

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