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Goodwill   /gˈʊdwˈɪl/   Listen
Goodwill

noun
1.
(accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets).  Synonym: good will.
2.
The friendly hope that something will succeed.  Synonym: good will.
3.
A disposition to kindness and compassion.  Synonyms: good will, grace.






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"Goodwill" Quotes from Famous Books



... our joy, of course, depends upon our fellows, and disappears when they fade away from our sight and we struggle along in a solitude, made the more dreary because of remembered companionship. And much of our joy depends upon the goodwill and help of our fellows, and they can snatch away all that so depends. They can hedge up our road and make it uncomfortable and sad for us in many ways, but no man but myself can put a roof over my head to shut me out from God and Christ; and as long as I have a clear sky overhead, it matters ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren

... astonished Mr. Carvel's guests, and which he alone could cook. The coach still stands in the stables where Harvey left it, a lumbering relic of those lumbering times when methinks there was more of goodwill and less of haste in the world. The great brass knocker, once resplendent from Scipio's careful hand, no longer fantastically reflects the guest as he beats his tattoo, and Mr. Peale's portrait of my grandfather is gone from the dining-room wall, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... to Osiris, everlasting lord, and to the gods of Restau. I come to thee knowing thy goodwill and having learned those rites which thou requirest for entrance into the lower world. May I have a safe arrival, and find food ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... voiced the impression in both their hearts. "My God'" he murmured "the bitter irony of it! 'Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men' ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall

... constitution became much more democratic than that of Solon. The laws of Solon had been obliterated by disuse during the period of the tyranny, while Cleisthenes substituted new ones with the object of securing the goodwill of the masses. Among these was the law concerning ostracism. Four years after the establishment of this system, in the archonship of Hermocreon, they first imposed upon the Council of Five Hundred the oath which they take ...
— The Athenian Constitution • Aristotle


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