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goodness (n.)
Old English
godnes
"goodness, virtue, kindliness;" see
good
(adj.) +
-ness
. In exclamations from 1610s as a term of emphasis, first recorded in
for goodnesse sake
, i.e. "as you trust in the divine goodness" (i.e., God).
