Like ' honour ' or ' godliness ' for earlier periods, ' politeness ' helps us map the culture broadly conceived.
Reliance on one's word went with recognition of one's honour, virtue, and godliness.
But one needed to be discriminating when assigning value to the uses of godliness.
From these one may expect social improvement and personal, marital, and family prosperity and happiness, along with virtue and godliness.
He has heard rumour that property will be redistributed according to professions of godliness, and thus will be held only through the favour of tyrants.
But what is striking about the note is not just its palpable godliness, but its overt predestinarianism.
It is full of godliness, goodness and cleanliness, but has nothing to do with industrial relations.
We have been told that cleanliness is next to godliness.
