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all-good

all-good adjective: purely good; having no evil.

Adjective

all-good (not comparable)

  1. Purely good; having no evil.
    • The point of this chapter is that there may be something within certain individuals that predisposes them to be attracted to and to accept a religion built around a patriarchal theology and characterized by an apocalyptic view of the world and the splitting of humanity into all-good and all-bad...2008, James Jones, Blood That Cries Out From the Earth
    • If all we knew was that God is all-good, but we did not know that rape is bad, then we would not know whether or not God could command rape.2009, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Morality Without God?

Questions about all-good

What does all-good mean?
All-good means purely good; having no evil.
What part of speech is all-good?
All-good is an adjective.

Words near all-good in the dictionary

  1. all-fired
  2. all-firedly
  3. all-fours
  4. all-gender
  5. all-girls
  6. all-good
  7. all-hail
  8. all-hailed
  9. all-hailing
  10. all-hails
  11. all-hands

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